| Tell |
v. t. |
To mention one by one, or piece by piece; to recount; to enumerate; to reckon; to number; to count; as, to tell money. |
| Tell |
v. t. |
To utter or recite in detail; to give an account of; to narrate. |
| Tell |
v. t. |
To make known; to publish; to disclose; to divulge. |
| Tell |
v. t. |
To give instruction to; to make report to; to acquaint; to teach; to inform. |
| Tell |
v. t. |
To order; to request; to command. |
| Tell |
v. t. |
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. |
| Tell |
v. t. |
To make account of; to regard; to reckon; to value; to estimate. |
| Tell |
v. i. |
To give an account; to make report. |
| Tell |
v. i. |
To take effect; to produce a marked effect; as, every shot tells; every expression tells. |
| Tell |
n. |
That which is told; tale; account. |
| Tell |
n. |
A hill or mound. |
| Tellable |
a. |
Capable of being told. |
| Tellen |
n. |
Any species of Tellina. |
| Teller |
n. |
One who tells, relates, or communicates; an informer, narrator, or describer. |
| Teller |
n. |
One of four officers of the English Exchequer, formerly appointed to receive moneys due to the king and to pay moneys payable by the king. |
| Teller |
n. |
An officer of a bank who receives and counts over money paid in, and pays money out on checks. |
| Teller |
n. |
One who is appointed to count the votes given in a legislative body, public meeting, assembly, etc. |
| Tellership |
n. |
The office or employment of a teller. |
| Tellina |
n. |
A genus of marine bivalve mollusks having thin, delicate, and often handsomely colored shells. |
| Telling |
p. pr. & vb. n. |
of Tell |
| Telling |
a. |
Operating with great effect; effective; as, a telling speech. |
| Telltale |
n. |
A thing that serves to disclose something or give information; a hint or indication. |
| Telltale |
n. |
An arrangement consisting of long strips, as of rope, wire, or leather, hanging from a bar over railroad tracks, in such a position as to warn freight brakemen of their approach to a low overhead bridge. |
| Telltale |
a. |
Telling tales; babbling. |
| Telltale |
n. |
One who officiously communicates information of the private concerns of others; one who tells that which prudence should suppress. |
| Telltale |
n. |
A movable piece of ivory, lead, or other material, connected with the bellows of an organ, that gives notice, by its position, when the wind is exhausted. |
| Telltale |
n. |
A mechanical attachment to the steering wheel, which, in the absence of a tiller, shows the position of the helm. |
| Telltale |
n. |
A compass in the cabin of a vessel, usually placed where the captain can see it at all hours, and thus inform himself of the vessel's course. |
| Telltale |
n. |
A machine or contrivance for indicating or recording something, particularly for keeping a check upon employees, as factory hands, watchmen, drivers, check takers, and the like, by revealing to their employers what they have done or omitted. |
| Telltale |
n. |
The tattler. See Tattler. |
| Tellural |
a. |
Of or pertaining to the earth. |
| Tellurate |
n. |
A salt of telluric acid. |
| Telluret |
n. |
A telluride. |
| Tellureted |
n. |
Combined or impregnated with tellurium; tellurized. |
| Tellurhydric |
a. |
Of, pertaining to, or designating, hydrogen telluride, which is regarded as an acid, especially when in solution. |
| Tellurian |
a. |
Of or pertaining to the earth. |
| Tellurian |
n. |
A dweller on the earth. |
| Tellurian |
n. |
An instrument for showing the operation of the causes which produce the succession of day and night, and the changes of the seasons. |
| Telluric |
a. |
Of or pertaining to the earth; proceeding from the earth. |
| Telluric |
a. |
Of or pertaining to tellurium; derived from, or resembling, tellurium; specifically, designating those compounds in which the element has a higher valence as contrasted with tellurous compounds; as, telluric acid, which is analogous to sulphuric acid. |
| Telluride |
n. |
A compound of tellurium with a more positive element or radical;
formerly called telluret. |
| Tellurism |
n. |
An hypothesis of animal magnetism propounded by Dr. Keiser, in Germany, in which the phenomena are ascribed to the agency of a telluric spirit or influence. |
| Tellurite |
n. |
A salt of tellurous acid. |
| Tellurite |
n. |
Oxide of tellurium. It occurs sparingly in tufts of white or yellowish crystals. |
| Tellurium |
n. |
A rare nonmetallic element, analogous to sulphur and selenium, occasionally found native as a substance of a silver-white metallic luster, but usually combined with metals, as with gold and silver in the mineral sylvanite, with mercury in Coloradoite, etc. Symbol Te. Atomic weight 125.2. |
| Tellurize |
v. t. |
To impregnate with, or to subject to the action of, tellurium;
chiefly used adjectively in the past participle; as, tellurized ores. |
| Tellurous |
a. |
Of or pertaining to tellurium; derived from, or containing, tellurium; specifically, designating those compounds in which the element has a lower valence as contrasted with telluric compounds; as, tellurous acid, which is analogous to sulphurous acid. |
