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Falsehood of speech. Arbuthnot.

Talk; conversation; speech; speech.[Obs.] Shak. In question, in debate; in the course of examination or discussion; as, the matter or point in question. -- Leading question. See under Leading. -- Out of question, unquestionably. "Out of question, 't is Maria's hand." Shak. -- Out of the question. See under Out. --…

e left hand, hell, With long reach, interposed. Milton. I am to pray you not to strain my speech To grosser issues, nor to larger reach Than to suspicion. Shak.

The expression, in speech or writing, of something remarked or noticed; the mention of that which is worthy of attention or notice; hence, also, a casual observation, comment, or statement; as, a pertinent remark.

To make minutes of, as a speech, or the doings of a public body; to write down from the lips of a speaker.

atements of law proceedings and decisions, or of legislative debates. (b) One who reports speeches, the proceedings of public meetings, news, etc., for the newspapers. Of our tales judge and reportour. Chaucer.

Expressing or containing reproach; upbraiding; opprobrious; abusive. The reproachful speeches . . . That he hath breathed in my dishonor here. Shak.

To counterfeit; to imitate. [Obs.] "They can so well resemble man's speech." Holland.

To suit or accord with; to correspond to. [R.] For his great deeds respond his speeches great. Fairfax.

To conform to Roman Catholic opinions, customs, or modes of speech.

A primitive form of speech; one of the earliest terms employed in language; a word from which other words are formed; a radix, or radical.

A frequent repetition of forms of speech without attention to the meaning; mere repetition; as, to learn rules by rote. Swift. till he the first verse could [i. e., knew] all by rote. Chaucer. Thy love did read by rote, and could not spell. Shak.

grace of the matter, it passeth for a full thousand. Fuller. A boldness and rotundity of speech. Hawthorne.

Circuitous; going round; indirect; as, roundabout speech. We have taken a terrible roundabout road. Burke.

Modifying a speech sound by contraction of the lip opening; labializing; labialization. See Guide to Pronunciation, § 11.

terature, language, style, and the like. "The rude Irish books." Spenser. Rude am I in my speech. Shak. Unblemished by my rude translation. Dryden.

c or communistic followers of the Irish agitator Denis Kearney, who delivered many of his speeches in the open sand lots about San Francisco; as, the sand-lot constitution of California, framed in 1879, under the influence of sand-lot agitation.

Something said; speech; discourse. [Obs.] "To hearken all his sawe." Chaucer.

A speech; something said; an expression of opinion; a current story; a maxim or proverb. [Archaic or Colloq.] He no sooner said out his say, but up rises a cunning snap. L'Estrange. That strange palmer's boding say, That fell so ominous and drear Full on the object of his fear. Sir W. Scott.

A defamatory speech or writing published to the injury of a person of dignity; -- usually abbreviated scan. mag.