Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A talesman.
- noun A group of talesmen.
- noun The writ allowing for a summons of jurors.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In law, a list or supply of persons summoned upon the first panel, or happening to be present in court, from whom the sheriff or clerk makes selections to supply the place of jurors who have been impaneled but are not in attendance.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- Persons added to a jury, commonly from those in or about the courthouse, to make up any deficiency in the number of jurors regularly summoned, being like, or
such as, the latter. - The writ by which such persons are summoned.
- a book containing the names of such as are admitted of the tales.
- such, or the like, from those standing about.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Plural form of
tale . - noun law A person available to fill vacancies in a jury.
- noun law A book or register of people available to fill jury vacancies.
- noun law A
writ tosummon people to court to fill vacancies in ajury .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Sad and bitter tales lie hidden back of those white doors, tales of poverty, of struggle, of disappointment.
VII. Of the Black Belt. William Edward Burghardt 1903
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Stone-1 was his name tales of the outer stars, of planets cracking comets crashing into the sun fury in the dogs of space distant encounters in the cloud's cold heart
three gretchens Jeff Swanson 2011
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The Kurd, in tales, is generally a sturdy thief; and in real-life is little better.
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A character in one of the tales is an apprentice in a senbei store.
Archive 2008-01-01 2008
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This first of four tales is a terrific young adult Regency romantic suspense tales starring fully developed characters.
La Petite Four-Regina Scott « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews 2008
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Unhelpful Labels: customers say the darndest things, tales from the cafe
Archive 2009-03-01 Zenmomma 2009
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Unhelpful Labels: customers say the darndest things, tales from the cafe reasons to keep on blogging: kelli said ...
Tales from the Cafe Zenmomma 2009
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Unhelpful Labels: art for arts sake, tales from the cafe
Archive 2009-02-01 Zenmomma 2009
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I'm currently in the midst of an old children's book, Max Voegeli's The Wonderful Lamp (1955) which is a great take on the tales from the Arabian Nights swirled together into an original story.
Friday Book Club Nalini Singh 2010
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I've expanded on these thoughts on The Barking Dog ... and impelled more and to think that in The Kindly Ones, we are not reading anything close to 'realist historical fiction,' but something resembling a monstrous fable -- the darkest of tales from the brothers Grimm, not at all constructed as a representation of historical reality, but as an endlessly suggestive fictive parallel.
Furies 2009
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