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

tell \tell\ te^l, v. t. imp.  p. p. told t=old; p.
   pr.  vb. n. telling. as. tellan, from talu tale, number,
   speech; akin to d. tellen to count, g. zaumhlen, ohg.
   zellen to count, tell, say, icel. telja, dan. tale to speak,
   taelle to count. see tale that which is told.
   1. to mention one by 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.
      1913 webster

            he telleth the number of the stars.   --ps. cxlvii.
                                                  4.
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            tell the joints of the body.          --jer. taylor.
      1913 webster

   2. to utter or recite in detail; to give an account of; to
      narrate.
      1913 webster

            of which i shall tell all the array.  --chaucer.
      1913 webster

            and not a man appears to tell their fate. --pope.
      1913 webster

   3. to make known; to publish; to disclose; to divulge.
      1913 webster

            why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife?
                                                  --gen. xii.
                                                  18.
      1913 webster

   4. to give instruction to; to make report to; to acquaint; to
      teach; to inform.
      1913 webster

            a secret pilgrimage,
            that you to-day promised to tell me of? --shak.
      1913 webster

   5. to order; to request; to command.
      1913 webster

            he told her not to be frightened.     --dickens.
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   6. to discern so as to report; to ascertain by observing; to
      find out; to discover; as, i can not tell where one color
      ends and the other begins.
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   7. to make account of; to regard; to reckon; to value; to
      estimate. obs.
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            i ne told no dainity of her love.     --chaucer.
      1913 webster

   note: tell, though equivalent in some respect to speak and
         say, has not always the same application. we say, to
         tell truth or falsehood, to tell a number, to tell the
         reasons, to tell something or nothing; but we never
         say, to tell a speech, discourse, or oration, or to
         tell an argument or a lesson. it is much used in
         commands; as, tell me the whole story; tell me all you
         know.
         1913 webster

   to tell off, to count; to divide. --sir w. scott.
      1913 webster

   syn: to communicate; impart; reveal; disclose; inform;
        acquaint; report; repeat; rehearse; recite.
        1913 webster
see also:
told telling tale to tell off 

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

telling \tell"ing\, a.
   operating with great effect; effective; as, a telling speech.
   -- tell"ingly, adv.
   1913 webster
see also:
tell"ingly 

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

telling
     adj 1: disclosing unintentionally; "a telling smile"; "a telltale
            panel of lights"; "a telltale patch of oil on the
            water marked where the boat went down" syn: revealing,
             telltalea
     2: powerfully persuasive; "a cogent argument"; "a telling
        presentation"; "a weighty argument" syn: cogent, weighty
     3: producing a strong effect; "gave an impressive performance
        as othello"; "a telling gesture" syn: impressive
     n 1: an act of narration; "he was the hero according to his own
          relation"; "his endless recounting of the incident
          eventually became unbearable" syn: relation, recounting
     2: informing by words syn: apprisal, notification
     3: disclosing information or giving evidence about another
        syn: tattle, singing
see also:
revealing telltalea cogent weighty impressive relation 
recounting apprisal notification tattle singing 

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

219 moby thesaurus words for "telling":
   absolute, accounting, acid, adducible, admissible, agitating,
   announcement, armipotent, attestative, attestive, authentic,
   authoritative, based on, biting, breathtaking, celebrated, census,
   certain, charged, charismatic, charming, circumstantial,
   cliff-hanging, cogent, conclusive, consequential, considerable,
   conspicuous, conveyance, convincing, corrosive, counting,
   cumulative, cutting, dactylonomy, damning, decisive, determinative,
   disclosure, disquieting, distinguished, distracting, disturbing,
   documentary, documented, driving, dynamic, effective, effectual,
   efficacious, electric, eminent, enchanting, energetic, enumeration,
   esteemed, estimable, evidential, evidentiary, ex parte,
   exceptional, exciting, exhilarating, extraordinary, eye-witness,
   factual, final, firsthand, foliation, forceful, forcible,
   founded on, galvanic, giving, grounded on, gutsy, heady, hearsay,
   heart-expanding, heart-stirring, heart-swelling, heart-thrilling,
   high-potency, high-powered, high-pressure, high-tension,
   impartation, imparting, impartment, imperative, implicit,
   important, impressive, in force, in power, incisive,
   incontrovertible, indicative, indisputable, inflammatory,
   influential, intoxicating, inventorying, irrefutable, irresistible,
   jarring, jolting, maddening, magnetic, marked, material,
   measurement, memorable, mighty, mighty in battle, mind-blowing,
   momentous, mordant, moving, narration, narrative, nervous, noble,
   notable, noteworthy, notification, numbering, numeration,
   nuncupative, of mark, operative, outstanding, overcoming,
   overmastering, overpowering, overwhelming, pagination, penetrating,
   personable, persuasive, perturbing, piercing, piquant, poignant,
   potent, powerful, prepotent, prestigious, presumptive, probative,
   prominent, provocative, provoking, publication, puissant, punchy,
   quantification, quantization, rare, ravishing, recital, recountal,
   recounting, rehearsal, relation, reliable, remarkable,
   rememberable, reputable, retelling, review, ruling, salient,
   satisfactory, satisfying, sensational, sharing, signal,
   significant, sinewed, sinewy, slashing, solid, soul-stirring,
   sound, special, spirit-stirring, stimulating, stimulative,
   stirring, striking, strong, suasive, substantial, suggestive, sure,
   suspenseful, suspensive, symptomatic, tale-telling, tallying,
   tantalizing, thrilling, thrilly, transfer, transference,
   transmission, transmittal, trenchant, troubling, unforgettable,
   unsettling, upsetting, valid, vigorous, vital, weighty, winning,
   yarn spinning

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