Talk (?), 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. t?lka to
interpret, t?lkr an interpreter, Lith. tulkas an
interpreter, tulkanti, tulkÅti, 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.
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.
2. To confer; to reason; to consult.
Let me talk with thee of thy judgments.
Jer. xii. 1.
3. To prate; to speak impertinently.
[Colloq.]
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.]
Talk, v. t. 1. To speak
freely; to use for conversing or communicating; as, to talk
French.
2. To deliver in talking; to speak; to utter; to
make a subject of conversation; as, to talk nonsense; to talk
politics.
3. To consume or spend in talking; -- often
followed by away; as, to talk away an evening.
4. To cause to be or become by talking. "They
would talk themselves mad." Shak.
To talk over. (a) To talk about;
to have conference respecting; to deliberate upon; to discuss; as, to
talk over a matter or plan. (b) To change
the mind or opinion of by talking; to convince; as, to talk over an
opponent.
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.
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.
2. Report; rumor; as, to hear talk of
war.
I hear a talk up and down of raising our
money.
Locke.
3. Subject of discourse; as, his achievment is the
talk of the town.
Syn. -- Conversation; colloquy; discourse; chat; dialogue;
conference; communication. See Conversation.