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▸ noun: A number told or counted off; a reckoning by count; an enumeration.
▸ noun: (slang) The fraudulent opportunity presented by a confidence man to the mark or victim.
▸ noun: An account of an asserted fact or circumstance; a rumour; a report, especially an idle or malicious story; a piece of gossip or slander; a lie.
▸ noun: (obsolete) Number; tally; quota.
▸ noun: (obsolete) Account; estimation; regard; heed.
▸ noun: (obsolete) Speech; language.
▸ noun: (obsolete) A speech; a statement; talk; conversation; discourse.
▸ noun: (law, obsolete) A count; declaration.
▸ noun: (rare or archaic) A number of things considered as an aggregate; sum.
▸ noun: (rare or archaic) A report of any matter; a relation; a version.
▸ verb: (dialectal or obsolete) To speak; discourse; tell tales.
▸ verb: (dialectal, chiefly Scotland) To reckon; consider (someone) to have something.
▸ noun: Alternative form of tael [Any of several units of measure used in China and elsewhere in eastern Asia, approximately 40 grams.]
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