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Definition of Tales

1. n. 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.

Definition of Tales

1. Noun. (plural of tale) ¹

2. Noun. (legal) A person available to fill vacancies in a jury. ¹

3. Noun. (legal) A book or register of people available to fill jury vacancies. ¹

4. Noun. (legal) A writ to summon people to court to fill vacancies in a jury. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Tales

1. tale [n] - See also: tale

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tales

Literary usage of Tales

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Dictionary of National Biography by Leslie Stephen, Sidney Lee (1885)
"Und Banim • broached to Michael his scheme for a series of possessed the hearty humour of a Lover or a national tales. The elder brother at once Lever, ..."

2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"It is about one inch in length and nearly transparent. FAIRY-tales, stories in which fairies play a part, or which contain other supernatural or magical ..."

3. The Cambridge History of American Literature by William Peterfield Trent (1921)
"In the reports of the Bureau of Ethnology, where you will find their Amerind forebears, the tales have a grim quality, a Spoon River quality, ..."

4. The Journal of American Folk-lore by American Folklore Society (1920)
"The stories are published by permission of the American Museum of Natural History, under whose auspices the expedition was made. I. tales OF THE ..."

5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"They range from simple primitive tales to long heroic, circumstantially told stories in which ... Closely connected with these tales are the ancestor myths, ..."

6. Shakespeare Jest-books: Reprints of the Early and Very Rare Jest-books by William Carew Hazlitt (1864)
"Of these tales there has, so far as is known, been only one edition. In 1566-7, Thomas Colwell paid fourpence for his licence to print "a boke intituled ..."

7. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Sir Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1905)
"The chivalric tales had produced, however, another offspring besides the ... The other rogue tales which followed on the same lines were purposely cast in ..."

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