Definition of speaking

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Speaking (a.) Uttering speech; used for conveying speech; as, man is a speaking animal; a speaking tube..

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Whist :: Whist (a.) Not speaking; not making a noise; silent; mute; still; quiet.
Chant :: Chant (v. t.) Twang; manner of speaking; a canting tone.
Outspeak :: Outspeak (v. t.) To exceed in speaking.
Boasting :: Boasting (n.) The act of glorying or vaunting; vainglorious speaking; ostentatious display.
Hand :: Hand (n.) An agent; a servant, or laborer; a workman, trained or competent for special service or duty; a performer more or less skillful; as, a deck hand; a farm hand; an old hand at speaking..
Turgid :: Turgid (a.) Swelling in style or language; vainly ostentatious; bombastic; pompous; as, a turgid style of speaking..
Well-spoken :: Well-spoken (a.) Speaking well; speaking with fitness or grace; speaking kindly.
Veracious :: Veracious (a.) Observant of truth; habitually speaking truth; truthful; as, veracious historian..
Long-winded :: Long-winded (a.) Long-breathed; hence, tediously long in speaking; consuming much time; as, a long-winded talker..
Outspoken :: Outspoken (a.) Speaking, or spoken, freely, openly, or boldly; as, an outspoken man; an outspoken rebuke..
Discourse :: Discourse (n.) The art and manner of speaking and conversing.
Muffle :: Muffle (v. t.) To prevent seeing, or hearing, or speaking, by wraps bound about the head; to blindfold; to deafen..
Periphrase :: Periphrase (n.) The use of more words than are necessary to express the idea; a roundabout, or indirect, way of speaking; circumlocution..
Prose :: Prose (n.) The ordinary language of men in speaking or writing; language not cast in poetical measure or rhythm; -- contradistinguished from verse, or metrical composition..
Parlante :: Parlante (a. & adv.) Speaking; in a speaking or declamatory manner; to be sung or played in the style of a recitative.
Honey-tongued :: Honey-tongued (a.) Sweet speaking; persuasive; seductive.
Drawling :: Drawling (n.) The act of speaking with a drawl; a drawl.
Hack :: Hack (n.) A hacking; a catch in speaking; a short, broken cough..
Pause :: Pause (n.) In speaking or reading aloud, a brief arrest or suspension of voice, to indicate the limits and relations of sentences and their parts..
Polyglot :: Polyglot (a.) Versed in, or speaking, many languages..
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