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A speech uttered by a person alone; soliloquy; also, talk or discourse in company, in the strain of a soliloquy; as, an account in monologue. Dryden.

Having a monopodium or a single and continuous axis, as a birchen twig or a cornstalk.

One who talks in the same strain or on the same subject until weariness is produced. Richardson.

Foolish talk; nonsense; folly. [Obs.]

Quality of being multiloquent; use of many words; talkativeness.

Speaking much; very talkative; loquacious.

Excess of words or talk. [R.]

To talk imperfectly, brokenly, or feebly; to chatter unintelligibly.

An edible fungus (Agaricus campestris), having a white stalk which bears a convex or oven flattish expanded portion called the pileus. This is whitish and silky or somewhat scaly above, and bears on the under side radiating gills which are at first flesh-colored, but gradually become brown. The plant grows in rich past…

habits they resemble the European starlings, and like them are often caged and taught to talk. See Hill myna, under Hill, and Mino bird. [Spelt also mynah.]

to acquiescence in an argument or assertion; hence, to catch; to trap. When they came to talk of places in town, you saw at once how I nailed them. Goldsmith.

Talk or writing which is weakly sentimental or affectedly pretty. Macaulay.

Loud or continuous talk; general talk or discussion; rumor; report. "The noise goes." Shak. What noise have we had about transplantation of diseases and transfusion of blood! T. Baker. Soerates lived in Athens during the great plague which has made so much noise in all ages. Spectator.

Any moth of the genus Nonagria and allied genera, as the spindleworm and stalk borer.

Generally known and talked of by the public; universally believed to be true; manifest to the world; evident; -- usually in an unfavorable sense; as, a notorious thief; a notorious crime or vice. Your goodness, Since you provoke me, shall be most notorious. Shak.

Futility; trifling talk or behavior; drollery. [R.] Dr. H. More.

A dunce; a dolt; a stupid fellow. [Colloq.] They have talked like numskulls. Arbuthnot.

e. The Moor is of a free and open nature. Shak. The French are always open, familiar, and talkative. Addison.

An eyestalk; the organ which bears the compound eyes of decapod Crustacea.

To silence by talk, clamor, or noise. [R.] Shak.