Talk | Webster's Dictionary (1865)

Talk, v. i.

verbintransitive

(tawk), v. i. [imp. & p. p. TALKED (tawkt); p. pr. & vb. n. TALKING.] [Prov. Ger. talken, to speak indistinctly; O. D. tolken, Dan. tolke, Sw. tolka, Icel. tulka, to interpret, allied to tell.]

Sense 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. Shak.

Sense 2. To confer; to reason.

Let me talk with thee of thy judgments. Jer. xii. 1.

Sense 3. To prate; to speak impertinently.

To talk of, to relate; to tell; to give account; as, authors talk of the wonderful remains of Palmyra. “The mineral histories of Switzerland talk much of the fall of these rocks, and the great damage done.” Addison.—To talk to, to advise or exhort, or to reprove gently; as, I will talk to my son respecting his conduct. [Colloq.]

Talk, v. t.

verbtransitive

(tawk), v. t. 1. To speak freely; to use for conversing or communicating; as, to talk French.

To mention in talking; to speak; to utter; as, to talk nonsense.
To consume or spend in talking;—often followed by away; as, to talk away an evening.

To talk over, to talk about; to have conference respecting; to deliberate upon; to discuss; as, to talk over a matter or plan.

Talk, n.

noun

(tawk), n. 1. Familiar converse; mutual discourse; that which is uttered by one person in familiar conversation, or the mutual converse of two or more.

In various talk the instructive hours they passed. Pope.

Their talk, when it was not made up of nautical phrases, was too commonly made up of oaths and curses. Macaulay.

Sense 2. Report; rumor.

I hear a talk up and down of raising money. Locke.

Sense 3. Subject of discourse; as, this noble achievement is the talk of the whole town.

Sense 4. 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.

Synonyms—Conversation; colloquy; discourse; chat; dialogue; conference; communication. See CONVERSATION.

Tălk, n.

noun

n. The same as TALC. See TALC.