Category:Tale

Tale, n.

Defn: see tael.

Tale Tale, n. Etym: [as. talu number, speech, narrative; akin to d. taal Speech, language, g. zahl number, ohg. zala, icel. tal, tala, number, Speech, sw. tal, dan. tal number, tale speech, goth. talzjan to Instruct. Cf. Tell, v. t., Toll a tax, also talk, v. i.]

1. That which is told; an oral relation or recital; 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.

2. A number told or counted off; a reckoning by count; an Enumeration; a count, in distinction from measure or weight; a number Reckoned or stated. The ignorant,. . . who measure by tale, and not by weight. Hooker. And every shepherd tells his tale, under the hawthornn in the dale. Milton. In packing, they keep a just tale of the number. Carew.

3. (law)

Defn: a count or declaration. [obs.] To tell tale of, to make account Of. [obs.] Therefore little tale hath he told of any dream, so holy was his Heart. Chaucer.

Syn. -- anecdote; story; fable; incident; memoir; relation; account; Legend; narrative.

Tale Tale, v. i.

Defn: to tell stories. [obs.] Chaucer. Gower.

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---excerpt from the Illustrated Bible Dictionary

Tale - (1.) Heb. tokhen, "a task," as weighed and measured out = tally, i.e., the number told off; the full number (Exodus 5:18; see 1 Samuel 18:27; 1 Chronicles 9:28). In Ezekiel 45:11 rendered "measure." (2.) Heb. hegeh, "a thought;" "meditation" (Psalms 90:9); meaning properly "as a whisper of sadness," which is soon over, or "as a thought." The LXX. and Vulgate render it "spider;" the Authorized Category:Version and Revised Category:Version, "as a tale" that is told. In Job 37:2 this word is rendered "sound;" Revised Category:Version margin, "muttering;" and in Ezekiel 2:10, "mourning."