Definition of speak

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Speak (v. t.) To address; to accost; to speak to.

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Missay :: Missay (v. i.) To speak ill.
Snuffle :: Snuffle (v. i.) To speak through the nose; to breathe through the nose when it is obstructed, so as to make a broken sound..
Goodman :: Goodman (n.) A husband; the master of a house or family; -- often used in speaking familiarly.
Forespeak :: Forespeak (v. t.) To foretell; to predict.
Discourser :: Discourser (n.) One who discourse; a narrator; a speaker; an haranguer.
Splutterer :: Splutter (n.) A confused noise, as of hasty speaking..
Unbespeak :: Unbespeak (v. t.) To unsay; hence, to annul or cancel..
Elocution :: Elocution (n.) Oratorical or expressive delivery, including the graces of intonation, gesture, etc.; style or manner of speaking or reading in public; as, clear, impressive elocution..
Lexiphanic :: Lexiphanic (a.) Using, or interlarded with, pretentious words; bombastic; as, a lexiphanic writer or speaker; lexiphanic writing..
Theme :: Theme (n.) A subject or topic on which a person writes or speaks; a proposition for discussion or argument; a text.
Nefandous :: Nefandous (a.) Unfit to speak of; unmentionable; impious; execrable.
Shall :: Shall (v. i. & auxiliary.) As an auxiliary, shall indicates a duty or necessity whose obligation is derived from the person speaking; as, you shall go; he shall go; that is, I order or promise your going. It thus ordinarily expresses, in the second and third persons, a command, a threat, or a promise. If the auxillary be emphasized, the command is made more imperative, the promise or that more positive and sure. It is also employed in the language of prophecy; as, the day shall come when . .
Megaphone :: Megaphone (n.) A device to magnify sound, or direct it in a given direction in a greater volume, as a very large funnel used as an ear trumpet or as a speaking trumpet..
Speak :: Speak (v. i.) To discourse; to make mention; to tell.
Overspeak :: Overspeak (v. t. & i.) To exceed in speaking; to speak too much; to use too many words.
Unembarrassed :: Unembarrassed (a.) Not perplexed in mind; not confused; as, the speaker appeared unembarrassed..
Hebraism :: Hebraism (n.) A Hebrew idiom or custom; a peculiar expression or manner of speaking in the Hebrew language.
Hypostasis :: Hypostasis (n.) Principle; an element; -- used by the alchemists in speaking of salt, sulphur, and mercury, which they considered as the three principles of all material bodies..
Digress :: Digress (v. i.) To step or turn aside; to deviate; to swerve; especially, to turn aside from the main subject of attention, or course of argument, in writing or speaking..
Hyperbolize :: Hyperbolize (v. i.) To speak or write with exaggeration.
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