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Minutely stellate.

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

Being accustomed to tell stories. -- n.

A subordinate constellation. Sir T. Browne.

Being above intellect.

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

A rapid and delirious sort of Neapolitan dance in 6-8 time, which moves in whirling triplets; -- so called from a popular notion of its being a remedy against the poisonous bite of the tarantula. Some derive its name from Taranto in Apulia.

A short or simple toccata.

One who tells the truth. Truth-teller was our England's Alfred named. Tennyson.

Any spiral marine gastropod belonging to Turritella and allied genera. These mollusks have an elongated, turreted shell, composed of many whorls. They have a rounded aperture, and a horny multispiral operculum.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the turritellas.

Absence or lack of intelligence; unwisdom; ignorance. Bp. Hall.

Vitelline.

Producing yolk, or vitelline substance; -- applied to certain cells (also called nutritive, or yolk, cells) formed in the ovaries of many insects, and supposed to supply nutriment to the developing ova.

An albuminous body, belonging to the class of globulins, obtained from yolk of egg, of which it is the chief proteid constituent, and from the seeds of many plants. From the latter it can be separated in crystalline form.

Of or pertaining to the yolk of eggs; as, the vitelline membrane, a smooth, transparent membrane surrounding the vitellus.

A gland secreting the yolk of the eggs in trematodes, turbellarians, and some other helminths.

The contents or substance of the ovum; egg yolk. See Illust. of Ovum.

A partial alienation of reason. "Occasional aberrations of intellect." Lingard. Whims, which at first are the aberrations of a single brain, pass with heat into epidemic form. I. Taylor.

The quality or state of being able; power to perform, whether physical, moral, intellectual, conventional, or legal; capacity; skill or competence in doing; sufficiency of strength, skill, resources, etc.; -- in the plural, faculty, talent. Then the disciples, every man according to his ability, determined to send reli…