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s, to prolong one's days. Prolong awhile the traitor's life. Shak. The unhappy queen with talk prolonged the night. Dryden.

Talk; discourse. [Obs.] Shak.

One who talks or writes tediously. Sir W. Scott.

Love of empty of empty talk or noise. Coleridge.

plied to things and actions. "Pure religion and impartial laws." Tickell. "The pure, fine talk of Rome." Ascham. Such was the origin of a friendship as warm and pure as any that ancient or modern history records. Macaulay.

on is not perfected at the first push. Milton. hen it comes to the push, tic no more than talk. L' Estrange.

-- Quaking grass. (Bot.) (a) One of several grasses of the genus Briza, having slender-stalked and pendulous ovate spikelets, which quake and rattle in the wind. Briza maxima is the large quaking grass; B. media and B. minor are the smaller kinds. (b) Rattlesnake grass (Glyceria Canadensis).

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. --…

A perennial grass (Agropyrum repens) having long running rootstalks, by which it spreads rapidly and pertinaciously, and so becomes a troublesome weed. Also called couch grass, quick grass, quick grass, twitch grass. See Illustration in Appendix.

A frame fitted to a wagon for carrying hay, straw, or grain on the stalk, or other bulky loads.

confused, clattering noise; din; noisy talk or sport.

erable economic importance on account of the strong fiber (raffia) obtained from its leafstalks.

To talk or write in a discursive, aimless way.

Roving; wandering; discursive; as, a rambling fellow, talk, or building.

Ascending; climbing; rank in growth; exuberant. The rampant stalk is of unusual altitude. I. Taylor.

ate height; as, rank grass; rank weeds. And, behold, seven ears of corn came up upon one stalk, rank and good. Gen. xli. 5.

travagant language, without dignity of thought; to be noisy, boisterous, and bombastic in talk or declamation; as, a ranting preacher. Look where my ranting host of the Garter comes! Shak.

A noisy talker; a raving declaimer.

To make a clatter with a voice; to talk rapidly and idly; to clatter; -- with on or away; as, she rattled on for an hour. [Colloq.]

An empty, noisy talker.