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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Talk \Talk\, verb (used without an object) [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,
tulk[=o]ti, to interpret, Russ. tolkovate to interpret, to
talk about; or perhaps fr. OE. talien to speak (see {Tale},
verb (used without an object) & 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.]
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