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- English Word Tell Definition To take effect; to produce a marked effect; as, every shot tells; every expression tells.
- English Word Tell Definition That which is told; tale; account.
- English Word Tell Definition A hill or mound.
- English Word Tellable Definition Capable of being told.
- English Word Tellen Definition Any species of Tellina.
- English Word Teller Definition One who tells, relates, or communicates; an informer, narrator, or describer.
- English Word Teller Definition One of four officers of the English Exchequer, formerly appointed to receive moneys due to the king and to pay moneys payable by the king.
- English Word Teller Definition An officer of a bank who receives and counts over money paid in, and pays money out on checks.
- English Word Teller Definition One who is appointed to count the votes given in a legislative body, public meeting, assembly, etc.
- English Word Tellership Definition The office or employment of a teller.
- English Word Tellina Definition A genus of marine bivalve mollusks having thin, delicate, and often handsomely colored shells.
- English Word Telling Definition of Tell
- English Word Telling Definition Operating with great effect; effective; as, a telling speech.
- English Word Telltale Definition Telling tales; babbling.
- English Word Telltale Definition One who officiously communicates information of the private concerns of others; one who tells that which prudence should suppress.
- English Word Telltale Definition A movable piece of ivory, lead, or other material, connected with the bellows of an organ, that gives notice, by its position, when the wind is exhausted.
- English Word Telltale Definition A mechanical attachment to the steering wheel, which, in the absence of a tiller, shows the position of the helm.
- English Word Telltale Definition A compass in the cabin of a vessel, usually placed where the captain can see it at all hours, and thus inform himself of the vessel's course.
- English Word Telltale Definition A machine or contrivance for indicating or recording something, particularly for keeping a check upon employees, as factory hands, watchmen, drivers, check takers, and the like, by revealing to their employers what they have done or omitted.
- English Word Telltale Definition The tattler. See Tattler.