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One who tells stories; a narrator of anecdotes,incidents, or fictitious tales; as, an amusing story-teller.

To crowd with facts; to cram the mind of; sometimes, to crowd or fill with false or idle tales or fancies.

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.

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

To tell tales; to communicate secrets; to be a talebearer; as, a tattling girl.

One who tattles; an idle talker; one who tells tales. Jer. Taylor.

Given to idle talk; apt to tell tales. -- Tat"tling*ly, adv.

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

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

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…

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…