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 Aesop's time When all things talk'd, and talk'd 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.] |
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