Definition of "tales" []

• A group of people summoned to fill vacancies on a jury that has become deficient in number. (noun)
• The writ allowing for a summons of jurors. (noun)

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• "Sad and bitter tales lie hidden back of those white doors, —tales of poverty, of struggle, of disappointment."
• "Stone-1 was his name tales of the outer stars, of planets cracking comets crashing into the sun fury in the dogs of space distant encounters in the cloud's cold heart"
• "The Kurd, in tales, is generally a sturdy thief; and in real-life is little better."