![]() ![]() Talk′ativeness Talk′ee-talk′ee, a corrupt dialect: incessant chatter-also adj. ![]() Talk′able, capable of talking, or of being talked about Talk′ative, given to much talking: prating.- adv. familiar conversation: that which is uttered in familiar intercourse: subject of discourse: rumour.- adjs. to speak familiarly: to prattle: to reason.- n. Talking over the things which you have read with your companions fixes them upon the mind.Ĭhambers 20th Century Dictionary (0.00 / 0 votes) Rate this definition: It is difficult task to talk to the purpose, and to put life and perspicuity into our discourses. Will ye speak wickedly for God, and talk deceitfully for him? We will consider whether Adam had any such heir as our author talks of. The natural histories of Switzerland talk much of the fall of these rocks, and the great damage done. The crystalline sphere, whose balance weighs My heedless tongue has talk’d away this life. Mention the king of Spain, he talks very notably but if you go out of the Gazette you drop him.Īddison. Edmund Waller.Īs God remembers that we are but flesh, unable to bear the nearer approaches of divinity, and so talks with us as once with Moses through a cloud so he forgets not that he breathed into us breath of life, a vital active spirit. Here free from court-compliances he walks,Īnd with himself, his best adviser, talks. If I talk much, they shall lay their hands upon their mouth. The children of thy people still talk against thee. The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth. Now is this vice’s dagger become a squire, and talks as familiarly of John of Gaunt as if he had been sworn brother to him and he never saw him but once. I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you but I will not eat with you. To speak in conversation to speak fluently and familiarly not in set speeches to converse. Venetian talk kept in a heat of a glass furnace after all the remaining body, though brittle and discoloured, had not lost much of its bulk, and seemed nearer of kin to talk than mere earth.Įtymology: taelen, Dutch. Stones composed of plates are generally parallel, and flexible and elastick: as, talk, cat-silver or glimmer, of which there are three sorts, the yellow or golden, the white or silvery, and the black. Of whom to be despis’d were no small praise? To live upon their tongues and be their talk, I hear a talk up and down of raising our money, as a means to retain our wealth, and keep our money from being carried away. Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last. In various talk th’ instructive hours they past, This ought to weigh with those whose reading is designed for much talk and little knowledge. How can he get wisdom that driveth oxen, is occupied in their labours, and whose talk is of bullocks? ![]() Perceiving his soldiers dismayed, he forbad them to have any talk with the enemy. Oral conversation fluent and familiar speech. ![]() Samuel Johnson's Dictionary (0.00 / 0 votes) Rate this definition:Įtymology: from the verb. "She will talk at Rutgers next week" "Did you ever lecture at Harvard?" Spill the beans, let the cat out of the bag, talk, tattle, blab, peach, babble, sing, babble out, blab out verbĭivulge confidential information or secrets "If you don't oblige me, I'll talk!" "The former employee spilled all the details" "the baby talks already" "the prisoner won't speak" "they speak a strange dialect" "She talks a lot of nonsense" "This depressed patient does not verbalize" Talk, speak, utter, mouth, verbalize, verbalise verb "We often talk business" "Actions talk louder than words" "he attended a lecture on telecommunications" "I attended an interesting talk on local history" "his poetry contains much talk about love and anger" "let's have more work and less talk around here"ĭiscussion (`talk about' is a less formal alternative for `discussion of') Princeton's WordNet (4.50 / 2 votes) Rate this definition: ![]()
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