noun. A member of a jury panel chosen from bystanders when a regularly summoned jury turns out to be insufficient in number for a scheduled trial.

noun. The author or relater of a tale.

noun. In law, a person summoned to act as a juror from among the bystanders in open court.

noun. A person called to make up a deficiency in the number of jurors when a tales is awarded.

noun. Someone summoned to a jury when a tales is awarded, to make up numbers.

noun. The author or relater of a tale; storyteller; a speaker of tales (male).

"But where the inspired tall talesman of simpler days went on and on, never quite certain and never much caring what the next load of breath might contain, at his best he imparted with a new demotic flair the sense of life living."