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Idle talk or chat; tittle-tattle.

Given to idle talk; apt to tell tales. -- Tat"tling*ly, adv.

A native or inhabitant of Thebes; also, a wise man. I'll talk a word with this same learned Theban. Shak.

A shoot of a plant, springing from the root or bottom of the original stalk; a sucker.

tip, of the toe. He must . . . stand on his typtoon [tiptoes]. Chaucer. Upon his tiptoes stalketh stately by. Spenser. To be, or To stand, a tiptoe or on tiptoe, to be awake or alive to anything; to be roused; to be eager or alert; as, to be a tiptoe with expectation.

Idle, trifling talk; empty prattle. Arbuthnot.

To talk; to prate. Dryden.

A great talker. [Obs.]

One who uses his tongue; a talker; a story-teller; a gossip. [Poetic.] Step by step we rose to greatness; through the tonguesters we may fall. Tennyson.

The common mullein, the stalks of which, dipped in suet, anciently served for torches. Called also torch, and hig-taper.

To act or talk without seriousness, gravity, weight, or dignity; to act or talk with levity; to indulge in light or trivial amusements. They trifle, and they beat the air about nothing which toucheth us. Hooker. To trifle with, to play the fool with; to treat without respect or seriousness; to mock; as, to trifle with…

, of a tree, apart from its limbs and roots; the main stem, without the branches; stock; stalk. About the mossy trunk I wound me soon, For, high from ground, the branches would require Thy utmost reach. Milton.

A tuft of flowers formed at the top of the main stalk, or stem, of certain plants.

Having tubercles; affected with, tubercles; tuberculate; as, a tubercled lung or stalk.

To talk a weak and silly manner, like one whose faculties are decayed; to prate; to prattle. Stanyhurst.

To prate; to talk much and idly; to gabble; to chatter; to twaddle; as, a twattling gossip. L'Estrange.

rushlike plant of the genus Cladium having hard, and sometimes prickly-edged, leaves or stalks. See Saw grass, under Saw.

hern climates, which has pretty, fragrant, pendulous flowers borne in pairs on a slender stalk. -- Twin-screw steamer, a steam vessel propelled by two screws, one on either side of the plane of the keel.

A kind of flower cluster in which the flower stalks radiate from a common point, as in the carrot and milkweed. It is simple or compound; in the latter case, each peduncle bears another little umbel, called umbellet, or umbellule.

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