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To utter a soliloquy; to talk to one's self.

The act of talking to one's self; a discourse made by one in solitude to one's self; monologue. Lovers are always allowed the comfort of soliloquy. Spectator.

Of or pertaining to the wall of the body; somatopleuric; parietal; as, the somatic stalk of the yolk sac of an embryo. Somatic death. See the Note under Death, n., 1.

. There is something in the wind. Shak. The whole world has something to do, something to talk of, something to wish for, and something to be employed about. Pope. Something attemped, something done, Has earned a night's repose. Longfellow.

The act of talking in one's sleep; somniloquism.

The act or habit of talking in one's sleep; somniloquy. Coleridge.

One who talks in his sleep.

Apt to talk in sleep.

A talking in sleep; the talking of one in a state of somnipathy. [R.] Coleridge.

To express opinions; to say; to talk; to converse. That fluid substance in a few minutes begins to set, as the tradesmen speak. Boyle. An honest man, is able to speak for himself, when a knave is not. Shak. During the century and a half which followed the Conquest, there is, to speak strictly, no English history. Macau…

Talk; mention; common saying. The duke . . . did of me demand What was the speech among the Londoners Concerning the French journey. Shak.

A long and slender stalk resembling a spindle.

The larva of a noctuid mmoth (Achatodes zeæ) which feeds inside the stalks of corn (maize), sometimes causing much damage. It is smooth, with a black head and tail and a row of black dots across each segment.

A slender stalk or blade in vegetation; as, a spire grass or of wheat. An oak cometh up a little spire. Chaucer.

Animated or possessed by a spirit. [Obs.] "So talked the spirited, sly snake." Milton.

To lay in a conical or other pile; to make into a large pile; as, to stack hay, cornstalks, or grain; to stack or place wood. To stack arms (Mil.), to set up a number of muskets or rifles together, with the bayonets crossing one another, and forming a sort of conical pile.

A stalking-horse. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

into a thousand irregular steeps and precipices. Addison. Bare steeps, where desolation stalks. Wordsworth.

A stale, or handle; a stalk. [Obs.] Chaucer. Holland.

Anything resembling a stem or stalk; as, the stem of a tobacco pipe; the stem of a watch case, or that part to which the ring, by which it is suspended, is attached.