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   Tell , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Told ; p. pr. & vb. n. Telling.] [AS. tellan, from talu tale, number, speech; akin to D. tellen to count, G. zählen, OHG. zellen to count, tell, say, Icel. telja, Dan. tale to speak, tælle to count. See Tale that which is told.]
   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.
   
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   He telleth the number of the stars.
   Ps. cxlvii. 4.
   
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   Tell the joints of the body.
   Jer. Taylor.
   
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   To utter or recite in detail; to give an account of; to narrate.
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   Of which I shall tell all the array.
   Chaucer.
   
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   And not a man appears to tell their fate.
   Pope.
   
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   To make known; to publish; to disclose; to divulge.
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   Why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife?
   Gen. xii. 18.
   
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   To give instruction to; to make report to; to acquaint; to teach; to inform.
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   A secret pilgrimage,
   That you to-day promised to tell me of?
   Shak.
   
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   To order; to request; to command.
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   He told her not to be frightened.
   Dickens.
   
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   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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   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.
   
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   ☞ 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.
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   To tell off, to count; to divide. Sir W. Scott.
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   Syn. -- To communicate; impart; reveal; disclose; inform; acquaint; report; repeat; rehearse; recite.
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   Tell, v. i.
   To give an account; to make report.
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   That I may publish with the voice of thankgiving, and tell of all thy wondrous works.
   Ps. xxvi. 7.
   
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   To take effect; to produce a marked effect; as, every shot tells; every expression tells.
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   To tell of. (a) To speak of; to mention; to narrate or describe. (b) To inform against; to disclose some fault of. -- To tell on, to inform against. [Archaic & Colloq.]
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   Lest they should tell on us, saying, So did David.
   1 Sam. xxvii. 11.
   
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   Tell, n. That which is told; tale; account. [R.]
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   I am at the end of my tell.
   Walpole.
   
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   Tell, n. [Ar.] A hill or mound.
   W. M. Thomson.
   
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