intransitive and transitive. To speak, declaim, say; to talk, chatter, prattle.

To utter or pronounce words or articulate sounds; to use or exercise the faculty of speech; to express one's thoughts by words.

intransitive. To discourse or preach; to talk, converse, or speak.

intransitive. To sing, recite, talk, discourse.

intransitive. To say, speak; to arrange, come to terms, agree.

intransitive. To speak, discourse. Obsolete.

intransitive. To make declaration, give utterance.

intransitive. To speak, talk. Also (of a bird): to sing.

transitive. To say, declare. Also intransitive: to speak.

intransitive. To speak, say.

intransitive. To utter words; to speak, talk, Obsolete (archaic in later use).

transitive. To reveal (the mouth) by parting the lips, esp. in readiness to speak; to part (the lips). to open one's mouth (also lips) (figurative)…

intransitive. To speak, to converse. Obsolete.

Const. of (the thing spoken of).

intransitive. To speak, talk. Obsolete.

transitive and intransitive. To say; to speak.

To speak up or out, to exclaim: originally with some notion of objection or remonstrance; in later times, simply, to raise one's voice, to speak. Obs…

transitive. Frequently with that clause or direct speech as object. To say or write in addition; to go on to say; to say as a further remark. Also †in…

intransitive. To speak, talk. Of birds: to sing.

intransitive. To speak, talk. Obsolete.

intransitive. To exercise the faculty of speech; to speak. Also (rarely) const. of, on.

intransitive. To speak.

intransitive. To speak, discourse.

intransitive. To speak; to talk. Now archaic and English regional.

To exercise the faculty of speech; to speak, utter words, say things; often contemptuous: to speak trivially, utter empty words, prate. to talk to…

transitive. To utter, speak; spec. to speak (one's mind, etc.), say (what one has to say). In early use often in imperative.

intransitive. Apparently: to speak.

transitive (in imperative). To say (what one has to say); to speak (one's mind). Obsolete.

intransitive. To speak. rare.

intransitive. To move, stir, make a slight noise; to start, flinch.

intransitive. To utter a sound. Usually in negative contexts. Also with against, at. Now English regional.

intransitive. Perhaps: = quetch, v., quake, v.1

Of a thing. intransitive. Of the tongue (also occasionally the jaws): to move briskly. Obsolete.

slang and dialect. To speak, talk; in Scottish (see quot. 1788).

Of a speaker. intransitive. To speak. Obsolete. rare.

intransitive. To utter or pronounce words; to make speech sounds; to speak distinctly.

intransitive. To speak, talk; to converse, gossip. Also figurative. Cf. tale, v. 6. Now rare (English regional (south-western) in later use).

intransitive. To talk.

Of a dog. In phrases: to move (its) tongue, to bark (archaic); to give tongue, to throw (its) tongue, of a hound: to give forth its voice when on…

slang. intransitive. To use the vocal organs; to speak, talk. (A colloquial, contemptuous, or hostile equivalent for speak.)

To interrupt the continuance of (a state); to disturb: esp. to break silence: see silence, n. int.phrases 2. Also to break stillness.

intransitive. To speak out; to say something out loud. Now rare.

The bark of a hound or other dog.

intransitive. English regional. To talk incessantly.

In plural. Conventional remarks or speech-like sounds made to express a particular emotion or quality. Chiefly in to make noises: to make remarks or…

intransitive. To talk, speak. rare.