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Given to continual talking; talkative; garrulous. Loquacious, brawling, ever in the wrong. Dryden.

In a loquacious manner.

Loquacity.

One who shows strangers the curiosities of a place; a guide. Every glib and loquacious hireling who shows strangers about their picture galleries, palaces, and ruins, is termed by them [the Italians] a cicerone, or a Cicero. Trench.

Talkative; loquacious; tattling. [Obs.] Talkers and futile persons. Bacon.

The quality of being talkative; talkativeness; loquaciousness; loquacity. [Obs.]

The mouth; hence, idle prate; chatter; unmeaning talk; loquaciousness. [Colloq.] Gift of gab, facility of expression. [Colloq.]

Talking much, especially about commonplace or trivial things; talkative; loquacious. The most garrulous people on earth. De Quincey.

Given to talking inanely; loquacious; garrulous. [R.]

Given to the use of the tongue; loquacious. [Obs.]

Talkative; babbling; loquacious. Shak.

Speaking much; very talkative; loquacious.

Garrulous; loquacious. [R.]

To talk much and to little purpose; to be loquacious; to speak foolishly; to babble. To prate and talk for life and honor. Shak. And make a fool presume to prate of love. Dryden.

Reasonable; also, loquacious. [Obs.] "Most renable of tongue." Piers Plowman. -- Ren"a*bly, adv. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Not speaking; indisposed to talk; speechless; mute; taciturn; not loquacious; not talkative. Ulysses, adds he, was the most eloquent and most silent of men. Broome. This new-created world, whereof in hell Fame is not silent. Milton.

Full of speech or words; voluble; loquacious. [R.]

A loquacious person, male or female; a prattler; a babbler; also, a boaster; a braggart; -- used in contempt or reproach. Jer. Taylor.

Given to talk; loquacious. The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade, For talking age and whispering lovers made. Goldsmith.