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Talk; conversation; esp., idle or beguiling talk; talk intended to deceive; flattery.

as a soft, spongy stem, eighteen or twenty feet high, crowned with a tuft of large, long-stalked, palmately lobed leaves. The milky juice of the plant is said to have the property of making meat tender. Also, its dull orange-colored, melon- shaped fruit, which is eaten both raw and cooked or pickled.…

Conversation; discourse; talk; diction; phrase; as, in legal parlance; in common parlance. A hate of gossip parlance and of sway. Tennyson.

To talk; to converse; to parley. [Obs.] Shak. Finding himself too weak, began to parle. Milton.

To talk glibly; to chatter; to harangue. [Colloq.] I've gone out and pattered to get money. Mayhew.

One who patters, or talks glibly; specifically, a street peddler. [Cant, Eng.]

A stalk which supports one flower or fruit, whether solitary or one of many ultimate divisions of a common peduncle. See Peduncle, and Illust. of Flower.

The stem or stalk that supports the flower or fruit of a plant, or a cluster of flowers or fruits.

A division of Cirripedia, including the stalked or goose barnacles.

Inclined or hanging downwards, as a flower on a recurved stalk, or an ovule which hangs from the upper part of the ovary.

A genus of large, stalked crinoids, of which several species occur in deep water among the West Indies and elsewhere.

The leafy involucre surrounding the fruit stalk of mosses; perichætium; perichete.

A term applied to the stipes or stalks of certain fungi which are covered with a woolly substance which at length becomes powdery. Henslow.

Frivolous or bantering talk; a frivolous manner of treating any subject, whether serious or otherwise; light raillery. Hannah More.

Having a stalk or petiole; as, a petioleate leaf; the petiolated abdomen of certain Hymenoptera.

A leafstalk; the footstalk of a leaf, connecting the blade with the stem. See Illust. of Leaf.

especially with the fingers; to pluck; to gather, as fruit from a tree, flowers from the stalk, feathers from a fowl, etc.

A plant (Rheum Rhaponticum) the leafstalks of which are acid, and are used in making pies; the garden rhubarb.

To be sequeamish or delicate; hence, to act or talk triflingly or ineffectively; to twaddle; piddle. [Dial. or Slang]

To talk unmeaningly; to chatter or prattle. [R.] Latimer.