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The calling sound ordinarily made by cows and other bovine animals. Talking voices and the law of herds. Wordsworth.

Cloying; fulsome. He had a tedious, luscious way of talking. Jeffrey.

Bad address; an awkward, tactless, or offensive way of accosting one or talking with one. W. D. Howells.

To overpower by talking; to exceed in talking; to talk down. Shak.

cess of political candidates or parties; political trickery. When we say that two men are talking politics, we often mean that they are wrangling about some mere party question. F. W. Robertson.

Talking irrationally and wildly; as, a raving lunatic. -- Rav"ing*ly, adv.

skills it, if a bag of stones or gold About thy neck do drown thee Herbert. It skills not talking of it. Sir W. Scott.

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.

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

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

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

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

s, to express dignity of step. With manly mien he stalked along the ground. Dryden. Then stalking through the deep, He fords the ocean. Addison. I forbear myself from entering the lists in which he has long stalked alone and unchallenged. Mericale.

A hunting for game in a quiet and cautious manner, or under cover; stalking; hence, colloquially, the pursuit of any object quietly and cautiously. -- Still"-hunt`er, n. -- Still"-hunt`ing, n. [U.S.]

To deliver in talking; to speak; to utter; to make a subject of conversation; as, to talk nonsense; to talk politics.

Given to much talking.

most that any tyrant ever pretended. Milton. His giantship is gone somewhat crestfallen, Stalking with less unconscionable strides. Milton.

aise aloft; to raise; to elevate; as, to uplift the arm; to uplift a rock. Cowper. Satan, talking to his nearest mate, With head uplift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed. Milton.

Talking idly; boasting; vaunting. -- Va"por*ing*ly, adv.