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wer 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.

One who practices deerstalking.

One who stalks.

An idle talker; an irrational prater; a teller of secrets. Great babblers, or talkers, are not fit for trust. L'Estrange.

A braggart, or loud talker. [Slang] Bartlett.

A prater; an idle talker.

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

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.

who faces; one who puts on a false show; a bold-faced person. [Obs.] There be no greater talkers, nor boasters, nor fasers. Latimer.

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

One who takes part in dialogue or conversation; a talker, interpreter, or questioner. Jer. Taylor.

mine by asking questions; as, to interrogate a witness. Wilt thou, uncalled, interrogate, Talker! the unreplying Fate Emerson.

An idle talker; a babbler; a prater. Chaucer.

A master of the use of language; a talker. [Obs.] I'll dispute with him; He's a rare linguist. J. Webster.

Long-breathed; hence, tediously long in speaking; consuming much time; as, a long-winded talker. -- Long"-wind"ed*ness, n. A tedious, long-winded harangue. South.

A noisy talker; a raving declaimer.

A noisy, senseless talker; a jabberer. It may seem strange that a man who wrote with so much perspicuity, vivacity, and grace, should have been, whenever he took a part in conversation, an empty, noisy, blundering rattle. Macaulay.

An empty, noisy talker.

One who tattles; an idle talker; one who tells tales. Jer. Taylor.

An idle, trifling talker; a gossip. [R.] Tatler.