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or force; superficial; inadequate; not sufficient for a covering; as, a thin disguise. My tale is done, for my wit is but thin. Chaucer.

Fig.: Worn out; as, a threadbare subject; stale topics and threadbare quotations. Swift.

Affecting; moving; pathetic; as, a touching tale. -- Touch"ing*ly, adv.

An old story; a silly tale. Shak.

Having three petals, or flower leaves; three-petaled.

Worn out; common; used until so common as to have lost novelty and interest; hackneyed; stale; as, a trite remark; a trite subject. -- Trite"ly, adv. -- Trite"ness, n.

Turbulence. What a tale of terror now its turbulency tells! Poe.

To translate; to construe; as, to turn the Iliad. Who turns a Persian tale for half a crown. Pope.

Not equal; not matched; not of the same size, length, breadth, quantity, strength, talents, acquirements, age, station, or the like; as, the fingers are of unequal length; peers and commoners are unequal in rank.

Unseasonable; untimely. [Obs.] "Untidy tales." Piers Plowman.

eaking, regarded as an object; ourselves; -- the objective case of we. See We. "Tell us a tale." Chaucer. Give us this day our daily bread. Matt. vi. 11.

nt; usage; custom; manner; habit. Let later age that noble use envy. Spenser. How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable, Seem to me all the uses of this world! Shak.

Benne (Sesamum orientale); also, its seeds; -- so called in the West Indies.

The quality or state of being venal, or purchasable; mercenariness; prostitution of talents, offices, or services, for money or reward; as, the venality of a corrupt court; the venality of an official. Complaints of Roman venality became louder. Milton.

eature in the Corinthian and Composite capitals. See Illust. of Capital, also Helix, and Stale.

The brush turkey (Talegallus Lathami) of Australia. See Brush turkey.

For what reason; why; -- used interrogatively. But wherefore that I tell my tale. Chaucer. Wherefore didst thou doubt Matt. xiv. 31.

to involve, as an effect or consequence; to be followed by. Wise poets that wrap truth in tales. Carew. To be wrapped up in, to be wholly engrossed in; to be entirely dependent on; to be covered with. Leontine's young wife, in whom all his happiness was wrapped up, died in a few days after the death of her daughter. Ad…

A story told by a sailor for the amusement of his companions; a story or tale; as, to spin a yarn. [Colloq.]

rather than in a mycelium, and reproduces by budding; esp. members of the orders Endomycetales and Moniliales. Some fungi may grow both as a yeast or as a mycelium, depending on the conditions of growth. Yeast cake, a mealy cake impregnated with the live germs of the yeast plant, and used as a conveniently transportab…