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ourse, when two or more persons interchange thoughts. I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you, walk with you, and so following, but I will not eat with you. Shak.

Given to much talking.

One who talks; especially, one who is noted for his power of conversing readily or agreeably; a conversationist. There probably were never four talkers more admirable in four different ways than Johnson, Burke, Beauclerk, and Garrick. Macaulay.

That talks; able to utter words; as, a talking parrot.

Anything that neutralizes, or that counteracts an alkaline tendency in the system. Hoopplw.

Of power to counteract alkalies.

A stalk of Indian corn.

One who practices deerstalking.

The hunting of deer on foot, by stealing upon them unawares.

One of the movable peduncles which, in the decapod Crustacea, bear the eyes at the tip.

The stalk of a leaf or of flower; a petiole, pedicel, or reduncle.

A stalk of hay.

To converse. [Obs.] Carew.

The stalk or petiole which supports a leaf.

To overpower by talking; to exceed in talking; to talk down. Shak.

To talk to excess. Milton.

The stem or main axis of a plant; as, a stalk of wheat, rye, or oats; the stalks of maize or hemp.

Having the eyes raised on a stalk, or peduncle; -- opposed to sessile-eyed. Said especially of podophthalmous crustaceans. Stalked- eyed crustaceans. (Zoöl.) See Podophthalmia.

Having a stalk or stem; borne upon a stem. Stalked barnacle (Zoöl.), a goose barnacle, or anatifer; -- called also stalk barnacle. -- Stalked crinoid (Zoöl.), any crinoid having a jointed stem.

One who stalks.