| (n.) | To utter words; esp., to converse familiarly; to speak, as in familiar discourse, when two or more persons interchange thoughts. |
| (n.) | To confer; to reason; to consult. |
| (n.) | To prate; to speak impertinently. |
| (v. t.) | To speak freely; to use for conversing or communicating; as, to talk French. |
| (v. t.) | To deliver in talking; to speak; to utter; to make a subject of conversation; as, to talk nonsense; to talk politics. |
| (v. t.) | To consume or spend in talking; -- often followed by away; as, to talk away an evening. |
| (v. t.) | To cause to be or become by talking. |
| (n.) | 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. |
| (n.) | Report; rumor; as, to hear talk of war. |
| (n.) | Subject of discourse; as, his achievment is the talk of the town. |