[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

tale \tale\ t=al, n.
   see tael.
   1913 webster
see also:
tael 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

tale \tale\ t=al, v. i.
   to tell stories. obs. --chaucer. --gower.
   1913 webster

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

tale \tale\, n. 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.
      1913 webster

            we spend our years as a tale that is told. --ps. xc.
                                                  9.
      1913 webster

   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.
      1913 webster

            the ignorant, . . . who measure by tale, and not by
            weight.                               --hooker.
      1913 webster

            and every shepherd tells his tale,
            under the hawthorn in the dale.       --milton.
      1913 webster

            in packing, they keep a just tale of the number.
                                                  --carew.
      1913 webster

   3. law a count or declaration. obs.
      1913 webster

   to tell tale of, to make account of. obs.
      1913 webster

            therefore little tale hath he told
            of any dream, so holy was his heart.  --chaucer.
      1913 webster

   syn: anecdote; story; fable; incident; memoir; relation;
        account; legend; narrative.
        1913 webster
see also:
tell toll talk to tell tale of 

[4] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

tael \tael\, n. malay tai^l, a certain weight, probably fr.
   hind. tola, skr. tul=a a balance, weight, tul to weigh.
   a denomination of money, in china, worth nearly six shillings
   sterling, or about a dollar and forty cents; also, a weight
   of one ounce and a third. written also tale.
   1913 webster taen
see also:
tale 

[5] : WordNet (r) 2.0

tale
     n 1: a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence
          or course of events; presented in writing or drama or
          cinema or as a radio or television program; "his
          narrative was interesting"; "disney's stories entertain
          adults as well as children" syn: narrative, narration,
           story
     2: a trivial lie; "he told a fib about eating his spinach";
        "how can i stop my child from telling stories?" syn: fib,
         story, tarradiddle, taradiddle
see also:
narrative narration story fib tarradiddle taradiddle 

[6] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

105 moby thesaurus words for "tale":
   account, aggregate, all, amount, anecdotage, anecdote,
   back-fence gossip, backbiting, backstabbing, be-all and end-all,
   belittlement, blague, box score, calumny, canard, cast, chitchat,
   chronicle, cock-and-bull story, count, defamation, depreciation,
   difference, disparagement, entirety, enumerate, epic, epos,
   exaggeration, fabrication, fairy tale, falsehood, falsification,
   falsity, farfetched story, farrago, fib, fiction, fish story, flam,
   flimflam, ghost story, gossip, gossiping, gossipmongering,
   gossipry, groundless rumor, half-truth, history, idle talk,
   legal fiction, libel, lie, little white lie, mendacity,
   misrepresentation, myth, narration, narrative, newsmongering,
   number, numerate, piece of gossip, pious fiction, prevarication,
   product, quantity, recital, reckoning, record, report, rumor, saga,
   scandal, score, scuttlebutt, slander, slight stretching, story,
   sum, sum total, summation, talebearing, taletelling, talk,
   tall story, tall tale, tally, taradiddle, tattle, tell,
   the bottom line, the story, the whole story, tittle-tattle, total,
   totality, tote, trumped-up story, untruth, white lie, whole,
   x number, yam, yarn

[7] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

tale
     
        typed applicative language experiment.  m. van leeuwen.  lazy,
        purely applicative, polymorphic.  based on typed second order
        lambda-calculus.  "functional programming and the language
        tale", h.p. barendregt et al, in current trends in
        concurrency, lncs 224, springer 1986, pp.122-207.
     
     

[8] : Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary

tale
   1. heb. tokhen, "a task," as weighed and measured out = tally,
   i.e., the number told off; the full number ex. 5:18; see 1 sam.
   18:27; 1 chr. 9:28. in ezek. 45:11 rendered "measure."
   
     2. heb. hegeh, "a thought;" "meditation" ps. 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 version and revised version, "as a tale" that is
   told. in job 37:2 this word is rendered "sound;" revised version
   margin, "muttering;" and in ezek. 2:10, "mourning."
   

[9] : Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)

tale, eng. law. the declaration or count was anciently so called in law 
pleadings. 3 bl. com. 293. 

[10] : Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)

tale, comm. law. a denomination of money in china. in the computation of the 
ad valorem duty on goods, c. it is computed at one dollar and forty-eight 
cents. act of march 2, 1799, s. 61, 1 sto. l. u. s. 626. vide foreign coins. 

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