talk

n. 1. The act of talking; especially, familiar converse; mutual discourse; that which is uttered, especially in familiar conversation, or the mutual converse of two or more. [ 1913 Webster ]

In various talk the instructive hours they passed. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

Their talk, when it was not made up of nautical phrases, was too commonly made up of oaths and curses. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Report; rumor; as, to hear talk of war. [ 1913 Webster ]

I hear a talk up and down of raising our money. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Subject of discourse; as, his achievment is the talk of the town. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Conversation; colloquy; discourse; chat; dialogue; conference; communication. See Conversation. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. talked p. pr. & vb. n. talking. ] [ Cf. LG. talk talk, gabble, Prov. G. talken to speak indistinctly; or OD. tolken to interpret, MHG. tolkan to interpret, to tell, to speak indistinctly, Dan. tolke to interpret, Sw. tolka, Icel. tūlka to interpret, tūlkr an interpreter, Lith. tulkas an interpreter, tulkanti, tulkōti, to interpret, Russ. tolkovate to interpret, to talk about; or perhaps fr. OE. talien to speak (see tale, v. i. & n.). ] 1. To utter words; esp., to converse familiarly; to speak, as in familiar discourse, when two or more persons interchange thoughts. [ 1913 Webster ]

I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you, walk with you, and so following, but I will not eat with you. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To confer; to reason; to consult. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let me talk with thee of thy judgments. Jer. xii. 1. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To prate; to speak impertinently. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

To talk of, to relate; to tell; to give an account of; as, 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.” Addison. --
To talk to, to advise or exhort, or to reprove gently; as, I will talk to my son respecting his conduct. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Given to much talking. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Garrulous; loquacious. See Garrulous. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Talk"a*tive*ly, adv. -- Talk"a*tive*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who talks; especially, one who is noted for his power of conversing readily or agreeably; a conversationist. [ 1913 Webster ]

There probably were never four talkers more admirable in four different ways than Johnson, Burke, Beauclerk, and Garrick. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A loquacious person, male or female; a prattler; a babbler; also, a boaster; a braggart; -- used in contempt or reproach. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]