| tale | |
| 1. n. (obsolete) Number; tally; quota. | |
| 2. n. (obsolete) Account; estimation; regard; heed. | |
| 3. n. (obsolete) Speech; language. | |
| 4. n. (obsolete) A speech; a statement; talk; conversation; discourse. | |
| 5. n. (legal, obsolete) A count; declaration. | |
| 6. n. (rare, or archaic) Numbering; enumeration; reckoning; account; count. | |
| 7. n. (rare, or archaic) A number of things considered as an aggregate; sum. | |
| 8. n. (rare, or archaic) A report of any matter; a relation; a version. | |
| 9. n. An account of an asserted fact or circumstance; a rumour; a report, especially an idle or malicious story; a piece of gossip or slander; a lie. | |
| Don't tell tales! | |
| 10. n. A rehearsal of what has occurred; narrative; discourse; statement; history; story. | |
| the Canterbury Tales | |
| 11. n. A number told or counted off; a reckoning by count; an enumeration. | |
| 12. n. (slang) The fraudulent opportunity presented by a confidence man to the mark (sense 3.3) of a confidence game. | |
| 13. v. (dialectal, or obsolete) To speak; discourse; tell tales. | |
| 14. v. (dialectal, chiefly Scotland) To reckon; consider (someone) to have something. | |
| 15. n. alternative form of tael | |
