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To talk with vehemence, importunity, or reiteration; to bluster. [Low]

Conversation; talk. In their discourses after supper. Shak. Filling the head with variety of thoughts, and the mouth with copious discourse. Locke.

of; to finish; to perform. Ere we put ourselves in arms, dispatch we The business we have talked of. Shak. [The] harvest men . . . almost in one fair day dispatcheth all the harvest work. Robynson (More's Utopia).

One who performs little though professing much. [Colloq.] Great talkers are commonly dolittles. Bp. Richardson.

ut now common to all classes. Don is used in Italy, though not so much as in Spain France talks of Dom Calmet, England of Dom Calmet, England of Dan Lydgate. Oliphant.

terance, from laziness, lack of spirit, affectation, etc. Theologians and moralists . . . talk mostly in a drawling and dreaming way about it. Landor.

Inarticulate or unmeaning utterance; foolish talk; babble.

To make to cease, as a stream of talk. Their sources of revenue were dried up. Jowett (Thucyd. ) -- To dry, or dry up, a cow, to cause a cow to cease secreting milk. Tylor.

To influence, or attempt to influence, by whispered insinuations or private talk. "No longer was he earwigged by the Lord Cravens." Lord Campbell.

Without bracteoles, or little bracts; -- said of a pedicel or flower stalk.

A group of Crustacea in which the eyes are without stalks; the Arthrostraca. [Written also Edriophthalmata.]

To talk or write as an egotist. Cowper.

rce a palm of ground could be gotten by either of the three. Bacon. There have been three talkers in Great British, either of whom would illustrate what I say about dogmatists. Holmes.

To give an emotional character to. Brought up in a pious family where religion was not talked about emotionalized, but was accepted as the rule of thought and conduct. Froude.

lly, and having no distinction of pith, wood, and bark, as the rattan, the palm, the cornstalk.

One who makes, or talks in, enigmas. Addison.

To make, or talk in, enigmas; to deal in riddles.

The process of preserving fodder (such as cornstalks, rye, oats, millet, etc.) by compressing it while green and fresh in a pit or vat called a silo, where it is kept covered from the air; as the ensilage of fodder.

Mutual talk or conversation; conference. [Obs.] Sir J. Hayward.

To rise upright. [Obs.] By wet, stalks do erect. Bacon.