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eness; incivility. We should avoid the vexation and impertinence of pedants who affect to talk in a language not to be understood. Swift.

Given to talking inanely; loquacious; garrulous. [R.]

Any act of rudeness or ill breeding. Uncomely jests, loud talking and jeering, which, in civil account, are called indecencies and incivilities. Jer. Taylor.

ue your trade of scandal picking; Your innuendoes, when you tell us, That Stella loves to talk with fellows. Swift.

nstruct or inform; as, experience furnishes very instructive lessons. Addison. In various talk the instructive hours they past. Pope. -- In*struct"ive*ly, adv. -- In*struct"ive*ness, n. The pregnant instructiveness of the Scripture. Boyle.

To make a dissonant, discordant noise one with another; to talk or chatter noisily. [R.] Daniel.

One who takes part in dialogue or conversation; a talker, interpreter, or questioner. Jer. Taylor.

mine by asking questions; as, to interrogate a witness. Wilt thou, uncalled, interrogate, Talker! the unreplying Fate Emerson.

To talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly; to utter gibberish or nonsense; to chatter. Swift.

To talk idly; to prate; to babble; to chatter; to gossip. "Thou janglest as a jay." Chaucer.

An idle talker; a babbler; a prater. Chaucer.

To utter jargon; to emit confused or unintelligible sounds; to talk unintelligibly, or in a harsh and noisy manner. The noisy jay, Jargoning like a foreigner at his food. Longfellow.

Impudent or abusive talk. [Slang] H. Kingsley. Jaw bit (Railroad), a bar across the jaws of a pedestal underneath an axle box. -- Jaw breaker, a word difficult to pronounce. [Obs.] -- Jaw rope (Naut.), a rope which holds the jaws of a gaff to the mast. -- Jaw tooth, a molar or grinder; a back tooth.…

Scolding; clamorous or abusive talk. [Slang] H. Kingsley.

A person addicted to jesting, or to indulgence in light and amusing talk. He ambled up and down With shallow jesters. Shak.

small, hymenopterous fly (Eurytoma hordei), which is found in gall-like swellings on the stalks of wheat, usually at or just above the first joint. In some parts of America it does great damage to the crop.

The hollow stalk of an umbelliferous plant, such as the cow parsnip or the hemlock. [Written also kex, and in pl., kecks, kaxes.] Nothing teems But hateful docks, rough thistles, kecksies, burs. Shak.

or things; a collection; a group; a hand; a clique; as, a knot of politicians. "Knots of talk." Tennyson. His ancient knot of dangerous adversaries. Shak. Palms in cluster, knots of Paradise. Tennyson. As they sat together in small, separate knots, they discussed doctrinal and metaphysical points of belief. Sir W. Sco…

An object of ridicule; a butt of sport. Shak. When he talked, he talked nonsense, and made himself the laughingstock of his hearers. Macaulay.

A stalked barnacle of the genus Lepas, or family Lepadidæ; a goose barnacle. Also used adjectively.