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Speak

Speak (speak)
v. i.(?)
Speak
[imp. Spoke (?) (Spake ((?)) Archaic); p. p. Spoken (?) (Spoke, Obs. or Colloq.); p. pr. *** vb. n. Speaking.] [OE. speken, AS. specan,
  1. To utter words or articulate sounds, as human beings; to express thoughts by words; as, the organs may be so obstructed that a man may not be able to speak.

    Till at the last spake in this manner. Chaucer.

    Speak, Lord; for thy servant heareth. 1 Sam. iii. 9.

  2. To express opinions; to say; to talk; to converse.

    That fluid substance in a few minutes begins to set, as the tradesmen speak. Boyle.

    An honest man, is able to speak for himself, when a knave is not. Shak.

    During the century and a half which followed the Conquest, there is, to speak strictly, no English history. Macaulay.

  3. To utter a speech, discourse, or harangue; to adress a public assembly formally.

    Many of the nobility made themselves popular by speaking in Parliament against those things which were most grateful to his majesty. Clarendon.

  4. To discourse; to make mention; to tell.

    Lycan speaks of a part of Cæsar's army that came to him from the Leman Lake. Addison.

  5. To give sound; to sound.

    Make all our trumpets speak. Shak.

  6. To convey sentiments, ideas, or intelligence as if by utterance; as, features that speak of self-will.

    Thine eye begins to speak. Shak.

    To speak of, to take account of, to make mention of. Robynson (More's Utopia). -- To speak out, to speak loudly and distinctly; also, to speak unreservedly. -- To speak well for, to commend; to be favorable to. -- To speak with, to converse with. "Would you speak with me?" Shak.

    Syn. -- To say; tell; talk; converse; discourse; articulate; pronounce; utter.


Speak

Speak (speak)
v. t.(?)
Speak
  1. To utter with the mouth; to pronounce; to utter articulately, as human beings.

    They sat down with him upn ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him. Job. ii. 13.

  2. To utter in a word or words; to say; to tell; to declare orally; as, to speak the truth; to speak sense.
  3. To declare; to proclaim; to publish; to make known; to exhibit; to express in any way.

    It is my father;s muste
    To speak your deeds.
    Shak.

    Speaking a still good morrow with her eyes. Tennyson.

    And for the heaven's wide circuit, let it speak
    The maker's high magnificence.
    Milton.

    Report speaks you a bonny monk. Sir W. Scott.

  4. To talk or converse in; to utter or pronounce, as in conversation; as, to speak Latin.

    And French she spake full fair and fetisely. Chaucer.

  5. To address; to accost; to speak to.

    [He will] thee in hope; he will speak thee fair. Ecclus. xiii. 6.

    each village senior paused to scan
    And speak the lovely caravan.
    Emerson.

    To speak a ship (Naut.), to hail and speak to her captain or commander.














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