English English Dictionary

Persons added to a jury, commonly from those in or about the courthouse, to make up any deficiency in the number of jurors regularly summoned, being like, or such as, the latter.

The writ by which such persons are summoned.

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

of Talesman

One who tells tales or stories, especially in a mischievous or officious manner; a talebearer; a telltale; a tattler.

In a way of a tale or story.

of Talus

See Tagliacotian.

Retaliation.

Retaliation.

The deformity called clubfoot. See Clubfoot.

A beautiful tropical palm tree (Corypha umbraculifera), a native of Ceylon and the Malabar coast. It has a trunk sixty or seventy feet high, bearing a crown of gigantic fan-shaped leaves which are used as umbrellas and as fans in ceremonial processions, and, when cut into strips, as a substitute for writing paper.

A magical figure cut or engraved under certain superstitious observances of the configuration of the heavens, to which wonderful effects are ascribed; the seal, figure, character, or image, of a heavenly sign, constellation, or planet, engraved on a sympathetic stone, or on a metal corresponding to the star, in order to receive its influence.

Hence, something that produces extraordinary effects, esp. in averting or repelling evil; an amulet; a charm; as, a talisman to avert diseases.

Alt. of Talismanical

Of or pertaining to a talisman; having the properties of a talisman, or preservative against evils by occult influence; magical.

of Talisman

To utter words; esp., to converse familiarly; to speak, as in familiar discourse, when two or more persons interchange thoughts.

To confer; to reason; to consult.

To prate; to speak impertinently.