tales

pl. [Lat., masc. pl. of talis =such.] Law: Persons of like reputation or standing; persons in the court from whom the sheriff or his clerk makes selections to supply the places of jurors who have been impaneled, but who are not in attendance. by means of challenges, or other cause, a sufficient number of unexceptionable jurors do not appear at the trial, either party may pray a tales , in order to make up a deficiency: the judge being empowered, at the prayer of either party, to award a tales de cir cums tanti bus, of per sons present in court, to be joined to the other jurors to try the cause; who are liable, however, to the same challenges as the principal jurors. This is usually done till the legal number of twelve be completed."- Black stone: Comment ., bk. iii., ch. 13. IMG:content-0783.png:[blocks in formation] 3994 tăl-1-pat, s. [TALIPOT.] tăl-1-pēs, s . [Lat. talus =an ankle, and pes =a foot.] The disease called Club-foot (q.v.). tăl-1-pot, tăl-1-pat, tal-1-put, subst . [Ceylonese.] Bot.: Corypha umbraculifera , a palm tree, native of Ceylon and the Malabar coast, and cultivated in Bengal and Burmah. It has a tall, cylindrical stem, with a soft rind and soft pink internal pith. both formed of vascular bunales. The leaves are in a cluster at the top of the stem, and are fan-shaped. A tree at Peradeniya, in Ceylon, was described in the Indian Agriculturist for November, 1873, as having a stem eighty-four feet high, terminated by a flower panicle of twenty feet, making 104 feet in all, the girth of the stem three feet from the ground round the persistent bases of the leaves was thirteen feet four inches; at twenty-one feet from the ground eight feet three inches; the leaves were about ten feet in diameter, and the age of the tree IMG:content-0784.png:[blocks in formation] 1. To talk from the point, subject , .: To wander in speaking from the point or subject under discu ion. 2. To talk one down: To silence one with ince ant talk. 3. To talk one out of : To di uade one from, as a 4. To talk one over: To gain one over by persuasion. about forty years. The pith is made into a kind of plan, project, . sago, the leaves are written upon by the natives with a steel stylus; they are, moreover, made into fans, mats, and umbrellas.