Noah 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.

Multi-Version Concordance Tales (4 Occurrences) Luke 24:11 And their words seemed to them as idle tales, and they believed them not. (KJV WBS) 1 Timothy 4:7 But refuse profane and old wives' fables. Exercise yourself toward godliness. (See NIV) 2 Peter 1:16 For we did not follow cunningly devised fables, when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty. (See NAS) Ezekiel 22:9 In thee are men that carry tales to shed blood: and in thee they eat upon the mountains: in the midst of thee they commit lewdness. (KJV WBS)