tales

Noun

tale (plural tales)

1. A rehearsal of what has occurred; narrative; discourse; statement; history; story.
   • the Canterbury Tales
2. A number told or counted off; a reckoning by count; an enumeration.
   • the ignorant, […] who measure by tale, and not by weight1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, Book I, Preface, §4
3. (slang) The fraudulent opportunity presented by a confidence man to the mark or victim.
4. 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!
5. (obsolete) Number; tally; quota.
   • And the tale of the bricks, which they did make heretofore, ye shall lay upon them; ye shall not diminish ought thereof: for they be idle; therefore they cry, saying, Let us go and sacrifice to our God.1611, King James Version, Exodus 5:8
6. (obsolete) Account; estimation; regard; heed.

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Noun

tallit (plural tallits or tallitot or tallitoth or tallitim or talleysim or tallaisim)

1. (Judaism) A traditional Jewish prayer shawl with tassels which covers the chest and upper part of the back.