Tale

n.	1.	See Tael.
	1.	That which is told; an oral relation or recital; any rehearsal of what has occured; narrative; discourse; statement; history; story. We spend our years as a tale that is told. - Ps. xc. 9.
	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. The ignorant, . . . who measure by tale, and not by weight. - Hooker. And every shepherd tells his tale, Under the hawthornn in the dale. - Milton. In packing, they keep a just tale of the number. - Carew.
	3.	(Law) A count or declaration. To tell tale of to make account of. Therefore little tale hath he told Of any dream, so holy was his heart. - Chaucer.
v. i.	1.	To tell stories.

Noun	1.	tale - 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" Synonyms: narration, narrative, story
	2.	tale - a trivial lie; "he told a fib about eating his spinach"; "how can I stop my child from telling stories?" Synonyms: fib, taradiddle, tarradiddle, story

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.

TALE, Eng. law. The declaration or count was anciently so called in law pleadings. 3 Bl. Com. 293.

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.

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