Tales - definition, pronunciation, transcription
noun
- (law) A person available to fill vacancies in a jury.
- (law) A book or register of people available to fill jury vacancies.
- (law) A writ to summon people to court to fill vacancies in a jury.
Extra examples
He told us thrilling tales about his adventures as a pilot in the war.
Are you telling tales again? Or is that the truth?
He published a compendium of folk tales.
...a writer renowned for her cracking tales of mystery and suspense...
...knights are celebrated in fairy tales for rescuing damsels in distress...
...the darkling valleys of Transylvania, where tales of vampires have long existed...
...some tall and diverting tales were told by the festival's roving storyteller...
My grandfather told us tales of faraway lands.
...in fairy tales stepmothers are often portrayed as harpies who make the lives of their stepchildren miserable...
...hair-raising tales of outlaws who ambushed coaches traveling the high roads...
...he has an inveterate tendency to tell some very tall tales...
Explorers were lured to the area by tales of a city of gold.
...she bought the book of fairy tales for the beautiful engravings of nymphs and fairies featured between the stories...
...a young lad with a predilection for telling tall tales...
...in pirate tales there's always the raucous tavern and its cadre of buxom queans...
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