Story-telling

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• Telling

  ·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of <<Tell>>. II. Telling ·adj Operating with great effect; effective; as, a telling...

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• Story

  ·noun A euphemism or child's word for "a lie;" a fib; as, to tell a story. II. Story ·vt To tell in...

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• story

  A floor; a flight of rooms.--Johnson. In the United States, the floor next the ground is the first ...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• Over-story

  ·noun The clearstory, or upper story, of a building. ...

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• Story-teller

  ·noun An historian; — in contempt. II. Story-teller ·noun A euphemism or child's word for. III. S...

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• Story-writer

  ·noun An historian; a chronicler. II. Story-writer ·noun One who writes short stories, as for magaz...

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• canterbury story

  A long roundabout tale. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• upper story

  or garret Figuratively used to signify the head. His upper story or garrets are unfurnished; i.e. h...

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• upper story

  The brain; as, 'He's not right in his upper story.'--Carr's Craven Dialect. This same expression is ...

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• Story, William Wetmore

  (1819-1895) Sculptor, poet, etc., b. at Salem, Mass., was intended for the law, but became a sculpt...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• cock and a bull story

  A roundabout story, without head or tail, i.e. beginning or ending. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• banbury story of a cock and a bull

  A roundabout, nonsensical story. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose