Concluding, naturally, that to gratify his avarice was to bespeak his favor. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To show beforehand; to foretell; to indicate. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ They ] bespoke dangers . . . in order to scare the allies. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To betoken; to show; to indicate by external marks or appearances. [ 1913 Webster ]

When the abbot of St. Martin was born, he had so little the figure of a man that it bespoke him rather a monster. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To speak to; to address. [ Poetic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

He thus the queen bespoke. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

My mother was half a witch; never anything that she forespake but came to pass. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To bewitch. [ Obs. ] Drayton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To speak openly or boldly. T. Campbell. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To express more than. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The top, or one of the tops, of a hill, mountain, or range, ending in a point; often, the whole hill or mountain, esp. when isolated; as, the Peak of Teneriffe. [ 1913 Webster ]

Silent upon a peak in Darien. Keats. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Naut.) (a) The upper aftermost corner of a fore-and-aft sail; -- used in many combinations; as, peak-halyards, peak-brails, etc. (b) The narrow part of a vessel's bow, or the hold within it. (c) The extremity of an anchor fluke; the bill. [ In the last sense written also pea and pee. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Fore peak. (Naut.) See under Fore. [ 1913 Webster ]

There peaketh up a mighty high mount. Holand. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence: To achieve a maximum of numerical value, intensity of activity, popularity, or other characteristic, followed by a decline; as, the stock market peaked in January; his performance as a pitcher peaked in 1990; sales of the XTX model peaked at 20, 000 per year. [ PJC ]

3. To acquire sharpness of figure or features; hence, to look thin or sickly. “Dwindle, peak, and pine.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. [ Cf. Peek. ] To pry; to peep slyly. [ archaic ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Peak arch (Arch.), a pointed or Gothic arch. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Oftener pēk"&ebreve_;d) Sickly; not robust. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]

2. Pining; sickly; peakish. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Having peaks; peaked. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Having features thin or sharp, as from sickness; hence, sickly. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Sickly; peaked. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To answer; to echo. [ Obs. or Poetic ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Till at the last spake in this manner. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Speak, Lord; for thy servant heareth. 1 Sam. iii. 9. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To express opinions; to say; to talk; to converse. [ 1913 Webster ]

That fluid substance in a few minutes begins to set, as the tradesmen speak. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

An honest man, is able to speak for himself, when a knave is not. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

During the century and a half which followed the Conquest, there is, to speak strictly, no English history. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To utter a speech, discourse, or harangue; to adress a public assembly formally. [ 1913 Webster ]

Many of the nobility made themselves popular by speaking in Parliament against those things which were most grateful to his majesty. Clarendon. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To discourse; to make mention; to tell. [ 1913 Webster ]

Lycan speaks of a part of Caesar's army that came to him from the Leman Lake. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To give sound; to sound. [ 1913 Webster ]

Make all our trumpets speak. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. To convey sentiments, ideas, or intelligence as if by utterance; as, features that speak of self-will. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thine eye begins to speak. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

To speak of, to take account of, to make mention of. Robynson (More's Utopia). --
To speak out, to speak loudly and distinctly; also, to speak unreservedly. --
To speak well for, to commend; to be favorable to. --
To speak with, to converse with. “Would you speak with me?” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To say; tell; talk; converse; discourse; articulate; pronounce; utter. [ 1913 Webster ]

They sat down with him upn ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him. Job. ii. 13. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To utter in a word or words; to say; to tell; to declare orally; as, to speak the truth; to speak sense. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To declare; to proclaim; to publish; to make known; to exhibit; to express in any way. [ 1913 Webster ]

It is my father;s muste
To speak your deeds. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Speaking a still good morrow with her eyes. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

And for the heaven's wide circuit, let it speak
The maker's high magnificence. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Report speaks you a bonny monk. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To talk or converse in; to utter or pronounce, as in conversation; as, to speak Latin. [ 1913 Webster ]

And French she spake full fair and fetisely. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To address; to accost; to speak to. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ He will ] thee in hope; he will speak thee fair. Ecclus. xiii. 6. [ 1913 Webster ]

each village senior paused to scan
And speak the lovely caravan. Emerson. [ 1913 Webster ]

To speak a ship (Naut.), to hail and speak to her captain or commander. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Able to speak. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A book of selections for declamation. [ U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Seeming to be capable of speech; hence, lifelike; as, a speaking likeness. [ 1913 Webster ]

A speaking acquaintance, a slight acquaintance with a person, or one which merely permits the exchange of salutations and remarks on indifferent subjects. --
Speaking trumpet, an instrument somewhat resembling a trumpet, by which the sound of the human voice may be so intensified as to be conveyed to a great distance. --
Speaking tube, a tube for conveying speech, especially from one room to another at a distance. --
To be on speaking terms, to be slightly acquainted. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Public declamation; oratory. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory. 1 Pet. i. 8. [1913 Webster]