vbl. sb. Now rare. [f. TALE v. + -ING1.] Telling of tales, talking, gossiping; also, a tale.
1382. Wyclif, Ps. cxviii[i]. 85. Wicke men tolden to me talingus; but not as thi lawe.
c. 1430. Pilgr. Lyf Manhode, II. cxxviii. (1869), 124. As flaterye heeld me thus with talinge,… and told me hire doinges.
1617. Hieron, Wks., II. 84. Gaming, and taling, and reading of merry stories.
1628. Wither, Brit. Rememb., 211. Among the poore are many wicked things … scolding, fightings, cursings, taleing, lies.
