To number; count; enumerate; reckon one by one, or one after another: as, to tell a hundred; to tell one's beads.To recount; rehearse; narrate; relate: as, to tell a story.To make known; divulge; disclose; reveal; communicate: as, to tell a secret; to tell one's errand.To declare; say.To put or express in words; recite; explain; make clear or plain.To discern so as to be able to say; distinguish; recognize; decide; determine: as, to tell one from another; she cannot tell which she likes best.To inform.To give an order, command, or direction to; order; bid: as, I told him to stay at home.To assure; assert positively to.To make account of: in phrases such as to tell no tale, to tell no dainty, to tell no store.Speak, State, etc. See say.To acquaint (with), apprise (of).To give an account; make report; speak; explain: with of.To say; declare.To talk; chat; gossip.To tell tales; play the informer; inform; blab: with of or on before the person: as, if you do, I'll tell.To act effectively; produce a marked effect or impression; count for something.n. That which is told; account; narration; story; tale.n. A hill or mound: common in Oriental place-names.