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 Speak v. t.
 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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