telfordize 
telfordize (tel'I'm-d-i/.), .J pret. and pp. M- 
fordi-iil, ppr. t(forettling. In rn.i<l-iinil,in<i. to 
'const met a ceonl instil the inetlioil of road-mak- 
ing invented l.y Thomas Telford. See Yr//..;--/ 
ti.li-i mi ut. 
Telford pavement. A roadway devised hy the 
Scotch engineer Thomas Telford ( I7.~>7- 1 "' I . 
The liott ing of Hie roa.l .-. insists of any ilmaM- 
|r I In V inrlies in dimension:., hand laid upon II 
loiindation lietween sneli .stones smaller pieces are 
picked Incomplete a compact layer 7 inches deep in the 
mid. Ili- of tin' road, ami graduated to 4 inches in depth at 
Hie sides, to produce a uniform convexity. I pou this is 
spread, ami rolled down, gravel composed of flints, the 
pi, -IT- bring as nearly cubical ill form as can be obtained, 
and none weighing more than six ounces. Tin- rolling ii 
continued till the surface Is crushed and compacted to 
smoothness. The name is often contracted to telford. 
telic (tcl'ikl. n. L< ''' rf/Hioi;, final, < ri'f-iir, 
end, completion.] Noting a final end or pur- 
pose. See i i-hil/ii'. 
teliconograph{tel-i-kon'o-graf),n. [<Gr 
iit'iir, + HM.JI-, an image, + ypufttv, write. Cf. 
ii'intiHft'iiitli.] Same us Ii !< ir<ti/f>i/rii[ilt. 
Telifera (te-lif e-rii), . pi. [NL.. < L. irin. 
well, + I'i'i-i-i' = E. WOT 1 .] Same as Kpithclni-iii. 
Telinga (to-ling'ga), n. 1. One of the people 
living in the eastern part of the Deccan. Yule 
mid Hiirnrll. 2f. ['. c.] A sepoy Telinga po- 
tato. See putato. 
tell 1 (tel), t'.; pret. and pp. told (formerlv or 
dial, sometimes felled, telt), ppr. tfllintj. [< ME. 
tellen (pret. tolde, talde, pp. told, ituld, tuli/ni, 
iitnlil), < AS. It-linn (pret. tctildc, pp. i/itnild) = 
( )S. Mliitii = OFries. tella = MD. D. tellen, count, 
reckon, consider, = MUi. trllrii = OIK i. zillmi, 
MHG. zeln, G. ziihlen, number (erzahlen, nar- 
rate), = Icel. tflja = Sw. tiilja = Dan. ttelle, num- 
ber, tell ; cf. Goth, talzjan, instruct, direct ; from 
the noun represented by tote 1 : see tote 1 , . Cf. 
////<', r. For the forms tell, told, cf. sell, sold.} 
1. trans. 1. To number; count; enumerate; 
reckon one bv one, or one after another: as, to 
Ml a hundred; to tell one's beads. 
Certeyn I hem never tolde ; 
For as fele eyen hadde she 
As fetheres upon fonles be. 
Chaueer, House of Fame, 1. 1380. 
Ills custom was to teU over his herd of sea-calves at 
noon, and then to sleep. Bacon, Physical Fables, vii. 
He cannot be so innocent a coxcomb ; 
He can tell ten, sure. 
Beau, and Fl., Coxcomb, 11. 1. 
Nobody comes to visit him, he receives no letters, and 
tells his money morning and evening. 
Sttele, Spectator, No. 264. 
2. To recount ; rehearse ; narrate; relate: as, 
to tell a story. 
Wltnesse, ye Heavens, the truth of all that I have Md .' 
Spenser, F. Q., VII. vl. 27. 
Life ... is a tale 
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, 
Signifying nothing. Shak., Macbeth, v. 6. 27. 
Masters, I have to tell a tale of woe, 
A tale of folly and of wasted life. 
William Morris, Earthly Paradise, I. fi. 
3. To make known; divulge; disclose; reveal; 
communicate: as, to tell a secret; to tell one's 
errand. 
Now wul y telle the rygt Way to Jerusalem. 
Sfandenille, Travels, p. 125. 
Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Aske- 
lon. 2 Sam. L 20. 
She never told her love, 
But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, 
Feed on her damask cheek. Shak., T. N., il. 4. 113. 
I wonder wha 'a tauld that gay ladle 
The fashion into our countrle. 
Lord Dingicall (Child's Ballads, I. 290). 
4 . To declare ; say. 
Who-so contrarieth treuthe he telleth in the gospel 
That Ood knoweth hym noujte, ne no seynte of heuene. 
Piert Plomnan (B), v. 55. 
5. To put or express in words ; recite; explain; 
make clear or plain. 
And dede men for that deon [din] comen oute of deope 
graues. 
And tiilden why that tempest so longe tyme durede. 
I'iiTX I'llitnitllll (O, XXI. I!:'.. 
I know, quoth he, what It meaneth, but I cannot tett 
It ; 1 cannot express it. 
l.nti mer, 2d Sermon bef. Edw. VI., 1560. 
Whoso ask'd her for his wife, 
His riddle tulil not, lost his life. 
Shak., Pericles, 1., Prol., 1. 38. 
Few can tell his pedigree. 
Nor his subtill nature conster. 
Marston and Bartsted, Insatiate Countess, v. 
6. To discern so as to be able to say; distin- 
guish; recognize; decide; determine: as. to tell 
one from another; she cannot Ml which sin- 
likes liest. 
I could always tell if visitors had called in my absence. 
Thtimni, \Valdcn, p. 141. 
6219 telltale 
1 Tn inform Is there no mean between busybudies and tell-clockt, be- 
' l "" . twccn factotums and fain 
He scith that ye be sone aperceyvannte of hym, and 
e "jf^.- n( E.E.T.s.x ..74. telled(teld). Anob*>Ieten.r..vi..<-i:.l i-n-t. n. 
T'U me, good Hobbinoll, what garres the* greete? of f< " . 
Speiaer, Shcp. Cal., April, tellen (tel'i-n ), n. \ < Sp. 1,-linn = ! . Mian. < NL. 
ni tell you as we pass along, T'llimi, < <ir. TtMMl, a kind of sliell-tisli: gee 
That you will wonder what hath fortuned. /, ,,. | \ liivalve of the genus T< Ilitui or of 
.S7,,|A-., T. (i. of V., v. 4. 1W. s ,, nK . ,,f ,(. ,.,.| !ltl . ( l Tfllillitlf. I'. I', furiii lili i: 
8. To (jive unorder, command, or direction to; teller (tel'er). H. [< -M K. trlli ; . </.//' + 
order: bid: as, I ("/'/ him to stay at home. 1 .( )ne who counts or enumerates, specifically 
coachmen that a team should never start until told. 
New York Tribune, May 11, 1890. 
9. To assure ; assert positively to. 
They are burs, I can tell you. Shak. , T. and C., Ui. 2. 120. 
Pshaw ! I tell you 'tis no such thing you are the man 
slit- \\ants, and nobody but \uti. 
Sheridan, The Duenna, ii. 4. 
Let me tell yon, you may drink worse French wine In 
many taverns In London than they have sometimes at thin 
house. Cotton, In Walton's Angler, Ii. -J27. 
10f. To make account of: in phrases such as 
to tell no t<il<; in tfll no dainty, tn Ml >in store. 
Veaaelle of Sylver is there non : for thel telle no prys 
there of, to make no Vesselle offe. 
MandemUe, Travels, p. 220. 
I ne tolde no deyntee of hlr love. 
Chavcer, Prol. to Wife of Bath's Tale, 1. 208. 
Tell that to the marines. See marine.- To tell 
noses. Seenoi. To tell no store oft. Swttore*. 
To tell Off, to count off ; especially, to count off and de- 
tach, as for some special duty : as, a squad was told of to 
clear the streets. TO tell one's beads. See to bid beadi, 
under head. To tell one's fortune, <>r to tell fortunes. 
See fortune. To tell one's own tale r story, to tell 
talet, to tell tales out of school. See talei. = Syn. 3. 
To Impart, report, repeat, mention, recite, publish. 
Speak, State, etc. See oyl. 7. To acquaint (with), ap- 
prise (of). 
posalorme_ 
are two tellers appointed for each party, of whom one for 
the ayes and another for the noes are associated to check 
each other In the telling. In the United SUte House of 
i:- pn -. -iiiativea but one Is appointed for each party, (o) 
"ne of f"iir ottleeri (Htyled tullirn ill "Id records) foinier- 
ly employed 111 the British Exchequer to receive money 
Durable to the king and to pay money payable by the king. 
The office was abolished In 1834 by 4 and 5 Will. IV., c. 15, 
and the duties of the four tellers are now performed by a 
controller-general of the receipt and Issue of the Exche- 
quer. See tallirr. 
Sir Edward [Carey] was a gentleman of the Chamber, 
and one of the four Tellers of the Exchequer. 
//. Hall, Society In Elizabethan Age, ix. 
(c) A functionary In a hanking establishment whose busi- 
ness It Is to receive or to pay money over the counter : as, 
a receiving teller ; a paying teller. 
2. One who tells, recounts, narrates, relates, 
or communicates something to others: as, a 
S' Kcnelm was a teller of strange things. 
Evelyn, Diary, June 18, 1670. 
It la as Zara that the city Is famous, because it Is as Zara 
that its name appears In the pages of the great English 
teller of the tale. K. A. Freeman, Venice, p. 121. 
4. tellership (td'er-ship), w. [< teller + -*Ai>.] 
The office or post of teller; a position as teller. 
Stv*^ tellevast, >< See talevas. 
II. inlra>is. 1. To give an account; make T e lli c h.erry hark. See conessi bark, under bark*. 
port; speak; explain: with of. Tellina (te-li'iift), . [NL. (Linnaeus, 1758), < 
ltttu> nt vniifro OIK) <ilili> 1*1 ' .. .. I."' ..1 
report 
Bothe of yonge and olde ~Gr."rtAA/w, kind 
Fnl wel byloved, and wel folk of hire tolde. , , ,, fi ', -, i 
CTiar,Troilu8,i.lSl. ' Bne " "' 
That I may publish with the voice of thanksgiving, and -. genus of 
tell of all thy wondrous works. Ps. xxvl. 7. bivalve mollusks, 
This ancient and Isolated city [Ragusa] has yet some- typical of the fam- 
thing more to tell of. E. A. Freeman, Venice, p. 240. 
Of the fruitful year 
They told, and Its delights. 
William Morrii, Earthly Paradise, I. 892. 
2. To say; declare. 
For hit aren mnrye-mouthede men myiistrales of heuene, 
And godes boyes, bordlours as the bok telleth. 
Fieri Plowman (C), x. 127. 
3. To talk; chat; gossip. [Prov. Eng.] 
While I've been t,-llin : i with yon, here 've this little maid 
been and ate up all my sugar ! 
Kingiiey, Westward Ho, xxx. 
4. To tell tales; play the informer; inform; 
ily Tellinidx. The 
shell has a strong ex- 
ternal ligament ; It is 
generally thin and 
handsomely colored. 
The animal has very 
long siphons. There 
are many species, both 
living and extinct, of all coasts. See also cut under Tel- 
linidee. 
telling (tel'ing),. Effective; impressive; strik- 
ing: as, a telling speech on tariff reform. 
Ttllina linftta-frlis (right valvel. 
And David saved neither man nor woman alive, to bring 
tidings to Gath, saying, Lest they should tell on us, saying, 
So did David. 1 Sam. xxvil. 11. 
He didn't want to tell on Maggie, though he was angry 
Not Latimer, not Luther, struck more telling blows 
against false theology than did this brave singer. 
Kmmou, Robert Burns, 
blab: with of or on before the person: as, if tellin g.l louse (tel'ing-hous), . One of the rude 
you do, I'll tell. \ cotsin which shepherds on the moor meet at 
the end of the pasturing season, to tell or count 
their sheep, K. D. Blackmore, Lorna Doone, 
ii., note. [Prov. Eng.] 
wHhherVforYomTulUverwiraiadoflonor. ' tellingly (tel'ing-li), adr. In a telling manner; 
Oeorge Eliot, Mill on the Floss, i. 5. 8O as to be effective ; effectively. 
6. To act effectively ; produce a marked effect The doctrine that poetry, not philosophy, is the true 
or impression; count for something. 
It 's true, every year will tell upon him. He is over flve- 
and forty, you know. Oeorge Eliot, Middlemarch, iv. TellinidSB (te-hn 1-de), n. pi 
It would seem that even pedantry and antiquarlanlsm 
are welcomed when they tell on behalf of the other side. 
E. A. Freeman, Venice, p. 42. 
Everybody knows that speeches are little, that debates 
are often nothing, in Congress and elsewhere ; but votes 
'(/. It Is the vote that men want. 
Bibliotheca Sacra, XLVII. 544. 
To hear tell Of. See hear. 
tell 1 (tel), H. [< teW, r.] That which is told; 
account; narration; story; tale. [Rare.] 
There, I am at the end of my tell! If I write on, it must 
be to ask questions. Walpole, To Mann, April 4, 1748. 
Little Barb'ry 's the very flower of the flock, accordln' to tellinite (tel'i-mt), n. 
terpretation of life, is put teUinyly and persuasively. 
The Academy, Dec. 1, 1888, p. 345. 
[NL., < Tellinii 
+ -id#.] A family of bivalve mollusks, of 
which the genus Tellina 
is the type. The animal 
has the mantle-lobes wide 
open in front, but continued 
into very long, separate si- 
phons behind; the labial 
palpi are large and trian- 
gular; the gills are united 
behind and appendlculate ; 
the foot Is tongue-shaped and 
compressed. The shell Is nearly equivalve, and generally 
has cardinal and anterior and posterior lateral teeth. 
[< Tellina + -ite*.] A 
my tell. E. Eggkttou, The Century, XXXV. 44. fossil shell of the genus Tellina, or some similar 
tell" (tel), . _[< Ar. tell, a hill.] A hill or mound : J& M*** , r , ,, m ., 4. ob = 
common in Oriental place-names. 
The east bank of the Tigris, where gigantic tellt or arti- 
ficial mounds, and the traces of an ancient city wall, bore 
evident witness of fallen greatness. 
Encye. Brit., XVII. 611. 
tellable (tel'a-bl),fl. [< fcK 1 + -able.'] Capable 
ef lieins; told'; worth telling, 
tell-bill-willy (tel'bil-wil'i), n. [Imitative.] 
The willet. Si/mpliemiu MMteMMlB. See ents 
under trillet and ximi/iiiliitiitf. [Bahamas.] 
tell-clockt (tel'klok), . [< tttfl, r., + obj. 
<7cA-2.] One who sits and counts the hours; 
an idler. 
i. 
d- 
telltale" (tel'tal), n. and a. K telfl, v., 
tale 1 .'] I. . 1. One who officiously or hee 
lessly communicates information concerning 
the private affairs of others ; one who tells that 
which is supposed to be secret or private; a 
blabber; an informer; a tale-bearer. 
One that qnarrells with no men, but for not pledging 
him. hut takes all absurdities, and commits as many, and 
Is no tell-tale next morning though hee remember it. 
Ilii. Earle, Micro-cosmographie, An Ordinalrie Honest 
[Fellow. 
If you see your master wronged by any of your fellow- 
servants, be sure to conceal it, for fear of being called a 
telltale. Su\ft, Advice to Servants (General Directions). 
