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Given to much talking.

A blustering, talkative fellow. [Local slang, U. S.] Barllett.

Given to light, familiar talk; talkative. Lady M. W. Montagu.

Lively; cheerful; talkative. [U. S.]

Chatty; talkative; sociable; familiar. [Eng.]

Talkative; pert; saucy. [Obs.]

ooth, fluent, and rapid speech; speaking with ease and rapidity; having a voluble tongue; talkative. It becometh good men, in such cases, to be flippant and free in their speech. Barrow.

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

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

Talkativeness; loquacity.

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

Talkative; babbling; loquacious. Shak.

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

he habit or practice of talking continually or excessively; inclination to talk too much; talkativeness; garrulity. Too great loquacity and too great taciturnity by fits. Arbuthnot.

Quality of being multiloquent; use of many words; talkativeness.

Speaking much; very talkative; loquacious.

e. The Moor is of a free and open nature. Shak. The French are always open, familiar, and talkative. Addison.

Talkativeness. [R.]

Talkative. [R.] W. Taylor.

or force; to cause, or permit, to be driven. They ran the ship aground. Acts xxvii. 41. A talkative person runs himself upon great inconveniences by blabbing out his own or other's secrets. Ray. Others, accustomed to retired speculations, run natural philosophy into metaphysical notions. Locke.