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Tales

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(n.) 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.

(2):

(syntactically sing.) The writ by which such persons are summoned.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Tales'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​t/tales.html. 1828.