noun.
That which is told; account; narration; story; tale.
noun.
A hill or mound: common in Oriental place-names.
To number; count; enumerate; reckon one by one, or one after another: as, to tell a hundred; to tell one's beads.
To recount; rehearse; narrate; relate: as, to tell a story.
To make known; divulge; disclose; reveal; communicate: as, to tell a secret; to tell one's errand.
To declare; say.
To put or express in words; recite; explain; make clear or plain.
To discern so as to be able to say; distinguish; recognize; decide; determine: as, to tell one from another; she cannot tell which she likes best.
To inform.
To give an order, command, or direction to; order; bid: as, I told him to stay at home.
To assure; assert positively to.
To make account of: in phrases such as to tell no tale, to tell no dainty, to tell no store.
Speak, State, etc. See say.
To acquaint (with), apprise (of).
To give an account; make report; speak; explain: with of.
To say; declare.
To talk; chat; gossip.
To tell tales; play the informer; inform; blab: with of or on before the person: as, if you do, I'll tell.
To act effectively; produce a marked effect or impression; count for something.