talk
TALK, v.i. tauk.
1. To converse familiarly; to speak, as in familiar discourse, when two or more persons interchange thoughts.
I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you; but I will not eat with you.
In Aesops time
When all things talkd, and talkd in rhyme.
I will come down and talk with thee. Num.11.
Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way? Luke 24.
2. To prate; to speak impertinently.
3. To talk of, to relate; to tell; to give account. Authors talk of the wonderful remains of Palmyra.
The natural histories of Switzerland talk much of the fall of these rocks, and the great damage done.
So shall I talk of thy wondrous works. Ps.119.
4. To speak; to reason; to confer.
Let me talk with thee of thy judgments. Jer.12.
To talk to, in familiar language, to advise or exhort; or to reprove gently. I will talk to my son respecting his conduct.
TALK, n. tauk. Familiar converse; mutual discourse; that which is uttered by one person in familiar conversation, or the mutual converse of two or more.
Should a man full of talk be justified? Job 11.
In various talk th instructive hours they past.
1. Report; rumor.
I hear a talk up and down of raising money.
2. Subject of discourse. This noble achievement is the talk of the whole town.
3. Among the Indians of North America, a public conference, as respecting peace or war, negotiation and the like; or an official verbal communication made from them to another nation or its agents, or made to them by the same.
TALK, a mineral. See Talck.
talkative
TALKATIVE, a. taukativ. Given to much talking; full of prate; loquacious; garrulous. One of the faults of old age is to be talkative.
talkativeness
TALKATIVENESS, n. taukativness. Loquacity; garrulity; the practice or habit of speaking much in conversation.
talking
TALKING, ppr. tauking. Conversing; speaking in familiar conversation. Matt.17.
1. a. Given to talking; loquacious; as talking age.
TALKING, n. tauking. The act of conversing familiarly; as foolish talking. Eph.5.