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Gesler on landing met with his fate from an arrow of Tell, 
who afterwards retired to Stauffacher in the canton of Sch weitz; 
and on the following new-year’s day, all the Austrian 
governors were seized and dismissed from the country ; and 
this circumstance is said to be the commencement of Swiss 
freedom. Tell’s death is supposed to have been occasioned 
by an inundation at Burgeln in the year 1354. 
To TELL, v. a. preterite and part, pass. told, [cellan, 
Saxon; taeleu, tellen, Dutch; talen, Danish.] To utter; 
to express; to speak. 
Thy message might in telling wound, 
And in performing end us. Milton. 
To relate; to rehearse. 
The rest are vanish’d, none repass’d the gate, 
And not a man appears to tell their fate. Pope. 
To teach ; to inform. 
Tell me now, what lady is the same, 
To whom you swore a secret pilgrimage, 
That you to-day, promis’d to tell me of. Shalcspeare. 
To discover; to betray.—They will tell it to the inhabit¬ 
ants. Numb. —To count; to number. 
Numerous sails the fearfull only tell; 
Courage from hearts, and not from numbers grows. 
. Dry den. 
To make excuses. A low word. 
Tush, never tell me, I take it much unkindly, 
That thou, Iago, who hast had my purse, 
As if the strings were thine, should’st know of this. 
S/iafcspearc. 
To TELL, v. n. To give an account; to make report. 
Ye that live and move, fair creatures tell. 
Tell, if ye saw, how came I thus, how here ? Milton. 
To Tf.ll on. To inform of. A doubtful phrase. — 
David saved neither man nor woman alive, to bring tidings 
to Gath, saying, lest they should tell on us, saying, so did 
David. Sam. 
TELLA PASHNUM, a name given by the people of the 
East Indies to a kind of white arsenic, found native in the 
cliffs of rivers among strata of stone. 
TE'LLER, s. One who tells or relates.—The nature of 
bad news infects the teller. Shakspeare. —One who num¬ 
bers ; a numberer. 
TELLER, an officer in the exchequer, of whom there are 
four: whose business is to receive all monies due to the 
crown, and thereupon to throw down a bill through a pipe 
into the tally-court, where it is received by the auditor’s clerks, 
who attend there to write the words of the said bill upon a 
tally, and then deliver it to be entered by the clerk of the 
pells, or his clerk. 
The tally is then split or cloven by the two deputy cham¬ 
berlains, who have their seals; and while the senior deputy 
reads the one part, the junior examines the other part with 
the other two clerks. 
The teller’s places are in the king’s gift, and they have 
besides their chief clerk or deputy, and other clerks for the 
dispatch of business. 
TELLES, a small sea-port of Fez, in Africa, on the coast 
of the Mediterranean, containing a safe harbour; 120 miles 
east-south-east of Tangiers. 
TELLESFORD, a parish of England, in Somersetshire; 
6 miles north-north-east of Frome. 
TELLICHEIIY, a sea-port town of the south of India, 
province of Malabar. Lat. 11. 44. N. long. 75. 36. E. 
TELLICO, a post township of the United States, in 
Blount county, Tennesse, on the north side of the river Ten¬ 
nessee; 50 miles south-west of Knoxville. 
TELLICO, a river of the United States, in Tennesse, 
which flows north-by-west into the Tennesse, just below 
Tellico. 
TELLINA, in the Linnaen system of Conchology, a dis¬ 
tinct genus of the class of Vermes, and order of Testacea. 
T E M 
For the characters of this genus, see Conchology. Gmelin 
enumerates ninety-one species. 
TELLING, Cape, a cape on the north-west coast of Ire¬ 
land. Lat. 54. 40. N. long. 10. 7. W. 
TELLO, a town on the west coast of the island of Celebes, 
Lat. 5. 5. S. long. 119. 30. E. 
TELLO, Point, a cape on the west coast of Sumatra. 
Lat. 1. 50. S. long. 100. 31. E. 
TE'LLTALE, s. One who gives malicious information; 
one who carries officious intelligence. 
You speak to Casca, and to such a man 
That is no Hearing telltale. Shakspeare. 
TE'LLTALE, adj. Blabbing; telling tales; giving 
malicious information. 
Let not the heavens hear these telltale women 
Rail on the Lord's anointed. Shakspeare. 
^ TELLURIUM, in Mineralogy, a metal discovered by 
Klaproth. See Mineralogy. 
TELOBO, a small island in the Eastern seas, near the 
west coast of Gilolo. Lat. 1. 6. S. long. 127. 15. E. 
TELTAU, or Teltow, or Kron-Teltow, a small 
town of Prussia, in Brandenburg, on a lake; 9 miles south- 
south-east of Berlin. It contains 1800 inhabitants, and is 
noted for a particular kind of turnips, which form an article 
of export. 
TELTSCH, a small town of the Austrian States, in Mora¬ 
via; 50 miles west of Brunn, and 14 south of Iglau. Po¬ 
pulation 3000. 
TEMASCALTEPEC, a town of Mexico, in the inten¬ 
dancy of Mexico, and the place where the duties on mines 
are paid. It contains 520 families of Spaniards, mulattoes, 
and mestizoes; 65 miles west-by-south of Mexico. 
TEMBEY, a river of Paraguay, which runs south-south¬ 
east, and enters the Parana, between the Quirapuy and Pira- 
popo. 
TEMBIO, Tambio, or Timbio, a river of New Granada, 
in Popayan, which runs from east to west, and which, re¬ 
ceiving the waters, of various tributary streams, ’enters the 
Patia, in lat. 2. 12. N. 
TEMBLEQUE, an inland town of Spain, in New Castile ; 
30 miles east-south-east of Toledo, and 46 south of Madrid. 
It contains 4500 inhabitants. Lat. 36. 41.0. N. long. 3.30. 
59. W. 
TEMBLOR, a river of the province of Buenos Ayres, 
which rises near the coast, and enters the sea between the 
river La Plata and the straits of Magellan, close to the river 
Tandil. 
TEMDEGUE KIAMEN, a post of Chinese Tartary, in 
the Mantchoo country ; 10 miles south-east of Tcitchilar. 
TEME, or Team, a river of England, which rises in 
Radnorshire, and passing through Salop and Worcestershire, 
runs into the Severn, 1 mile below Worcester. 
TEMEACHI, a settlement of Mexico, in the intendancy 
of Durango; 31 leagues south-west of the town of Chihu- 
apua 
TEMEH, a village of Upper Egypt, on the left bank of 
the Nile; 20 miles south-south-east of Siut. 
TAMENDFUSE, or Metafus, a low cape in Algiers, 
with a small castle, and some Roman ruins; 10 miles east of 
Algiers. 
TEMENEH, a village of Anatolia, in Asiatic Turkey; 52 
miles west-north-west of Sinope. 
TEMERA'RIOUS, adj. [ temeraire, Fr., temerarius, 
Lat.] Rash; heady; unreasonably adventurous; unreason¬ 
ably contemptuous of danger.—Resolution without fore¬ 
sight is but a temerarious folly; and the consequences of 
things are the first point to be taken into consideration. 
L'Estrange. —Careless; heedless; done at random.—Should 
he find upon one single sheet of parchment, an oration 
written full of profound sense, adorned with elegant phrase, 
the wit of man could not persuade him that this was done 
by the temerarious dashes of an unguided pen. Hay. 
TEMERA'RIOUSLY, adv. Rashly; with unreason¬ 
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