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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
talk \talk\ (t[add]k), verb (used without an object) [imp. & p. p. {talked} (t[add]kt); 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[=u]lka to interpret, t[=u]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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