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Furnished with a claw, or a narrow stalklike base, as the petals of a carnation.

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.

Vain or foolish talk. [Obs.]

Something unsubstantial, fleeting, or transitory; unreal fancy; vain imagination; idle talk; boasting. For what is your life It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. James iv. 14.

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

ast; to make a vain display of one's own worth, attainments, decorations, or the like; to talk ostentatiously; to brag. Pride, which prompts a man to vaunt and overvalue what he is, does incline him to disvalue what he has. Gov. of Tongue.

A membrane connecting the margin of the pileus of a mushroom with the stalk; -- called also velum.

To talk; chat. [Obs.]

Minutely verrucose; as, a verruculose leaf or stalk.

Abusive, reproachful language; discourteous speech; foul talk. [Archaic] He never yet not vileinye ne said In all his life, unto no manner wight. Chaucer. In our modern language, it [foul language] is termed villainy, as being proper for rustic boors, or men of coarsest education and employment. Barrow. Villainy till a…

Not stiff; pliant; frail; soft; as, the weak stalk of a plant.

weigh. Shak. This objection ought to weigh with those whose reading is designed for much talk and little knowledge. Locke.

ales. -- Welsh onion (Bot.), a kind of onion (Allium fistulosum) having hollow inflated stalks and leaves, but scarcely any bulb, a native of Siberia. It is said to have been introduced from Germany, and is supposed to have derived its name from the German term wälsch foreign. -- Welsh parsley, hemp, or halters made…

strumpet. She shall be called his wench or his leman. Chaucer. It is not a digression to talk of bawds in a discourse upon wenches. Spectator.

European sawfly (Cephus pygmæus) whose larva does great injury to wheat by boring in the stalks.

hence, a trifler. Every whiffler in a laced coat who frequents the chocolate house shall talk of the constitution. Swift.

ath, so as to be heard only by one near at hand; to utter words without sonant breath; to talk without that vibration in the larynx which gives sonorous, or vocal, sound. See Whisper, n.

Wildly; as, to talk wild. Shak.

Mere breath or talk; empty effort; idle words. Nor think thou with wind Of airy threats to awe. Milton.

espect of situation or environment; hence, among; in the company of. I will buy with you, talk with you, walk with you, and so following; but I will not eat with you, drink with you, nor pray with you. Shak. Pity your own, or pity our estate, Nor twist our fortunes with your sinking fate. Dryden. See where on earth the…