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   Speak , v. i. [imp. Spoke  (Spake  Archaic); p. p. Spoken  (Spoke, Obs. or Colloq.); p. pr. & vb. n. Speaking.] [OE. speken, AS. specan, sprecan; akin to OF.ries. spreka, D. spreken, OS. spreken, G. sprechen, OHG. sprehhan, and perhaps to Skr. sphūrj to crackle, to thunder.  Cf. Spark of fire, Speech.]
   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.
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   Till at the last spake in this manner.
   Chaucer.
   
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   Speak, Lord; for thy servant heareth.
   1 Sam. iii. 9.
   
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   To express opinions; to say; to talk; to converse.
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   That fluid substance in a few minutes begins to set, as the tradesmen speak.
   Boyle.
   
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   An honest man, is able to speak for himself, when a knave is not.
   Shak.
   
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   During the century and a half which followed the Conquest, there is, to speak strictly, no English history.
   Macaulay.
   
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   To utter a speech, discourse, or harangue; to adress a public assembly formally.
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   Many of the nobility made themselves popular by speaking in Parliament against those things which were most grateful to his majesty.
   Clarendon.
   
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   To discourse; to make mention; to tell.
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   Lycan speaks of a part of Caesar's army that came to him from the Leman Lake.
   Addison.
   
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   To give sound; to sound.
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   Make all our trumpets speak.
   Shak.
   
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   To convey sentiments, ideas, or intelligence as if by utterance; as, features that speak of self-will.
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   Thine eye begins to speak.
   Shak.
   
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   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.
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   Syn. -- To say; tell; talk; converse; discourse; articulate; pronounce; utter.
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   Speak , v. t.
   To utter with the mouth; to pronounce; to utter articulately, as human beings.
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   They sat down with him upn ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him.
   Job. ii. 13.
   
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   To utter in a word or words; to say; to tell; to declare orally; as, to speak the truth; to speak sense.
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   To declare; to proclaim; to publish; to make known; to exhibit; to express in any way.
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   It is my father;s muste
   To speak your deeds.
   Shak.
   
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   Speaking a still good morrow with her eyes.
   Tennyson.
   
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   And for the heaven's wide circuit, let it speak
   The maker's high magnificence.
   Milton.
   
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   Report speaks you a bonny monk.
   Sir W. Scott.
   
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   To talk or converse in; to utter or pronounce, as in conversation; as, to speak Latin.
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   And French she spake full fair and fetisely.
   Chaucer.
   
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   To address; to accost; to speak to.
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   [He will] thee in hope; he will speak thee fair.
   Ecclus. xiii. 6.
   
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   each village senior paused to scan
   And speak the lovely caravan.
   Emerson.
   
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   To speak a ship (Naut.), to hail and speak to her captain or commander.
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