[tales.man] n [ME tales talesmen, fr. ML tales de circumstantibus such (persons) of the bystanders; fr. the wording of the writ summoning them] (1679) 1: a person added to a jury usu. from among bystanders to make up a deficiency in the available number of jurors
2: a member of a large pool of persons called for jury duty from which jurors are selected