1. (n.) An account of the particulars of an event\ or transaction.

2. (a.) Apt or inclined to relate stories, or to tell particulars of events; story-telling; garrulous.

3. (n.) That which is narrated; the recital of a story; a continuous account of the particulars of an event or transaction; a story.

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