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erior marked with scars, mostly in quincunx order, produced by the separation of the leafstalks.

A master of the use of language; a talker. [Obs.] I'll dispute with him; He's a rare linguist. J. Webster.

evotion without the performance of acts suitable to such sentiments. -- Lip wisdom, wise talk without practice, or unsupported by experience. -- Lip work. (a) Talk. (b) Kissing. [Humorous] B. Jonson. -- Lip make a lip, to drop the under lip in sullenness or contempt. Shak. -- To shoot out the lip (Script.), to show…

To speak with imperfect articulation; to mispronounce, as a child learning to talk. As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisped in numbers came. Pope.

Talkative; babbling; loquacious. Shak.

Long-breathed; hence, tediously long in speaking; consuming much time; as, a long-winded talker. -- Long"-wind"ed*ness, n. A tedious, long-winded harangue. South.

Given to continual talking; talkative; garrulous. Loquacious, brawling, ever in the wrong. Dryden.

The habit or practice of talking continually or excessively; inclination to talk too much; talkativeness; garrulity. Too great loquacity and too great taciturnity by fits. Arbuthnot.

to be worse off, esp. as the result of any kind of contest. We 'll . . . hear poor rogues Talk of court news; and we'll talk with them too, Who loses and who wins; who's in, who's out. Shak.

Having a loud voice; talking or sounding noisily; noisily impudent.

The calling sound ordinarily made by cows and other bovine animals. Talking voices and the law of herds. Wordsworth.

Cloying; fulsome. He had a tedious, luscious way of talking. Jeffrey.

Inclination; desire. [Obs.] For little lust had she to talk of aught. Spenser. My lust to devotion is little. Bp. Hall.

A genus of ferns with twining or climbing fronds, bearing stalked and variously-lobed divisions in pairs.

Long and tedious talk without much substance; superfluity of words.

A fern of the genus Adiantum (A. pedatum), having very slender graceful stalks. It is common in the United States, and is sometimes used in medicine. The name is also applied to other species of the same genus, as to the Venus-hair. Maiden grass, the smaller quaking grass. -- Maiden tree. See Ginkgo.…

To continue; not to suffer to cease or fail. Maintain talk with the duke. Shak.

Bad address; an awkward, tactless, or offensive way of accosting one or talking with one. W. D. Howells.

To mutter; to mumble; to grumble; to speak indistinctly or disconnectedly; to talk incoherently. He was ever maundering by the how that he met a party of scarlet devils. Sir W. Scott.

To act or talk with affected nicety; to affect delicacy in manner.