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A fox (Vulpes Niloticus) of Northern Africa.

any rehearsal of what has occured; narrative; discourse; statement; history; story. "The tale of Troy divine." Milton. "In such manner rime is Dante's tale." Chaucer. We spend our years as a tale that is told. Ps. xc. 9.

One who officiously tells tales; one who impertinently or maliciously communicates intelligence, scandal, etc., and makes mischief. Spies and talebearers, encouraged by her father, did their best to inflame her resentment. Macaulay.

Telling tales officiously.

A kind of quadrangular piece of cloth put on by the Jews when repeating prayers in the synagogues. Crabb.

Full of stories. [R.] Thomson.

A genus of Australian birds which includes the brush turkey. See Brush turkey.

reeks, a weight and a denomination of money equal to 60 minæ or 6,000 drachmæ. The Attic talent, as a weight, was about 57 lbs. avoirdupois; as a denomination of silver money, its value was £243 15s. sterling, or about $1,180. Rowing vessel whose burden does not exceed five hundred talents. Jowett (Thucid.).…

Furnished with talents; possessing skill or talent; mentally gifted. Abp. Abbot (1663).

The writ by which such persons are summoned. Tales book, a book containing the names of such as are admitted of the tales. Blount. Craig. -- Tales de circumstantibus Etym: [L.], such, or the like, from those standing about.

A person called to make up a deficiency in the number of jurors when a tales is awarded. Wharton.

One who tells tales or stories, especially in a mischievous or officious manner; a talebearer; a telltale; a tattler.

In a way of a tale or story.

A Mexican dish made of crushed maize mixed with minced meat, seasoned with red pepper, dipped in oil, and steamed.

One of the bones or cartilages of the tarsus; esp., one of the series articulating with the metatarsals.

One pledged to entire abstinence from all intoxicating drinks.

Telling tales; babbling. "The telltale heart." Poe.

The quality or state of being tetravalent; quadrivalence.

Having a valence of four; tetratomic; quadrivalent.

A German silver coin worth about three shillings sterling, or about 73 cents.