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one, or piece by piece; to recount; to enumerate; to reckon; to number; to count; as, to tell money. "An heap of coin he told." Spenser. He telleth the number of the stars. Ps. cxlvii. 4. Tell the joints of the body. Jer. Taylor.

Capable of being told.

Any species of Tellina.

One who tells, relates, or communicates; an informer, narrator, or describer.

The office or employment of a teller.

A genus of marine bivalve mollusks having thin, delicate, and often handsomely colored shells.

Operating with great effect; effective; as, a telling speech. -- Tell"ing*ly, adv.

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

Of or pertaining to the earth. [R.]

A salt of telluric acid.

A telluride. [Obsoles.]

Combined or impregnated with tellurium; tellurized. [Written also telluretted.] [Obsoles.] Tellureted hydrogen (Chem.), hydrogen telluride, H2Te, a gaseous substance analogous to hydrogen sulphide; -- called also tellurhydric acid.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, hydrogen telluride, which is regarded as an acid, especially when in solution.

ch produce the succession of day and night, and the changes of the seasons. [Written also tellurion.]

Of or pertaining to the earth; proceeding from the earth. Amid these hot, telluric flames. Carlyle.

A compound of tellurium with a more positive element or radical; -- formerly called telluret.

pounded by Dr. Keiser, in Germany, in which the phenomena are ascribed to the agency of a telluric spirit or influence. [R.] S. Thompson.

A salt of tellurous acid.

eral sylvanite, with mercury in Coloradoite, etc. Symbol Te. Atomic weight 125.2. Graphic tellurium. (Min.) See Sylvanite. -- Tellurium glance (Min.), nagyagite; -- called also black tellurium.

To impregnate with, or to subject to the action of, tellurium; -- chiefly used adjectively in the past participle; as, tellurized ores.