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Definitions of Tales:

In law, at a trial, qualified men who happen to be present taken, by permission of the judge, to make up the insufficiency in the number of the jurors, occasioned by challenges or other causes.

Usage examples for Tales:

• Tales of the Dead. "The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 24 (of 25)", Robert Louis Stevenson Other: Andrew Lang

• He would take good care how he told tales again. "The Crofton Boys", Harriet Martineau

• In a sense also one may say that these tales are the great might- have- beens of Dickens. "Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens", G. K. Chesterton

• You cannot expect a man to tell tales on himself." "Sermons on National Subjects", Charles Kingsley