Without article: Discourse, narration, speech; occasionally idle talk, fable. Obsolete.

The action of telling, relating, or saying; discourse, conversation, talk. Obsolete.

The action or fact of relating, imparting, or saying something; narration, relation; conversation, talk (now English regional). Also: the…

The action of giving an account of something; narration, report. In early use also in †to make relation: to relate, recount.

Talk, in phrase to hold (a person) in fable; discourse, narration. Obsolete. rare.

In Old English, collationes, as above, was rendered þurhtogenes raca, þa þurhtogenessa, also simply race, recednesse, 1200 þa raca, i.e…

The action of reporting or stating something; communication, statement. Cf. delivery, n. 10. Now rare.

A thing narrated or recounted; a story, an account; = narrative, n. 2a.

The action or process of setting forth, declaring, or describing, either in speech or writing.

The action or an act of recounting a matter or matters; telling, narration; enumeration.

deduction.

The process of narrating or reciting; narration, explication.

The action of reporting or stating something; communication, statement. Cf. deliverance, n. 6.

The action or practice of reporting something (in various senses). Formerly also: †an instance of this, a report (obsolete).

The action of retail, v. (in various senses); the retail business.

= recount, n.1 Cf. recountal, n.

As a mass noun: the practice or art of narration or storytelling; material for narration.

The action of telling a story; (also) a thing that is narrated; a narrative, a commentary.

A tracing out (see deduce, v. 4). rare.

The act or an instance of recounting something; narration, recital; an account. Cf. recountment, n.

The action or an act of retailing (in various senses).