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Uttering speech; used for conveying speech; as, man is a speaking animal; a speaking tube.

A prediction; also, a preface. [Obs.] Camden. Huloet.

Direct, forcible, and effective speaking. Milton.

Modulation of the voice in speaking; manner of speaking or pronouncing; peculiar or characteristic modification of the voice; tone; as, a foreign accent; a French or a German accent. "Beguiled you in a plain accent." Shak. "A perfect accent." Thackeray. The tender accent of a woman's cry. Prior.

Manner of speaking to another; delivery; as, a man of pleasing or insinuating address.

Adieu; farewell; good-by; -- chiefly used among Spanish- speaking people.

A class of compounds analogous to vinic alcohol in constitution. Chemically speaking, they are hydroxides of certain organic radicals; as, the radical ethyl forms common or ethyl alcohol (C2H5OH); methyl forms methyl alcohol (CH3.OH) or wood spirit; amyl forms amyl alcohol (C5H11.OH) or fusel oil, etc.…

The act or manner of speaking to, or of addressing in words.

A speaking to another; an address. [Obs.]

The response of the congregation speaking alternately with the minister. Mason. Alternation of generation. See under Generation.

A poem in which persons are represented at speaking alternately; as the third and seventh eclogues of Virgil.

quickening the whole frame. Bp. Hall. Perhaps an inanimate thing supplies me, while I am speaking, with whatever I posses of animation. Landor.

Loss of the power of speaking, while retaining the power of writing; -- a disorder of cerebral origin.

branch of hplwaldry which treats of coat armor. The science of heraldry, or, more justly speaking, armory, which is but one branch of heraldry, is, without doubt, of very ancient origin. Cussans.

A babyish manner of acting or speaking.

erful, used to fill out a newspaper column; -- an allusion to the miracle of Balaam's ass speaking. Numb. xxii. 30. [Cant] Balaam basket or box (Print.), the receptacle for rejected articles. Blackw. Mag.

To jest about; to ridicule in speaking of, as some trait, habit, characteristic, and the like. [Archaic] If they banter your regularity, order, and love of study, banter in return their neglect of them. Chatham.

A needless repetition of words in speaking or writing. Milton.

To gain or win. [Obs.] Some think to bear it by speaking a great word. Bacon. She was . . . found not guilty, through bearing of friends and bribing of the judge. Latimer.

ration, or preliminary; previously; aforetime. They may be taught beforehand the skill of speaking. Hooker.