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To converse familiarly; to speak, as in familiar discourse, when two or more persons interchange thoughts. I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you; but I will not eat with you. In Aesop’s time . When all things talk’d, and talk’d in rhyme. I will come down and talk with thee. Numbers 11:17. Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way? Luke 24:32.

To prate; to speak impertinently.

To talk of, to relate; to tell; to give account. Authors talk of the wonderful remains of Palmyra. The natural histories of Switzerland talk much of the fall of these rocks, and the great damage done. So shall I talk of thy wondrous works. Psalm 119:27.

To speak; to reason; to confer. Let me talk with thee of thy judgments. Jeremiah 12:7. To talk to, in familiar language, to advise or exhort; or to reprove gently. I will talk to my son respecting his conduct.

Familiar converse; mutual discourse; that which is uttered by one person in familiar conversation, or the mutual converse of two or more. Should a man full of talk be justified? Job 17:2. In various talk th’ instructive hours they past.

Report; rumor. I hear a talk up and down of raising money.

Subject of discourse. This noble achievement is the talk of the whole town.

Among the Indians of North America, a public conference, as respecting peace or war, negotiation and the like; or an official verbal communication made from them to another nation or its agents, or made to them by the same.

a mineral.