[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

speak \speak\, v. t.
   1. 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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   2. 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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   3. 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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   4. 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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   5. 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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see also:
to speak a ship 

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