n.
The deformity called clubfoot. See Clubfoot.
n.
A beautiful tropical palm tree (Corypha umbraculifera), a native of Ceylon and the Malabar coast. It has a trunk sixty or seventy feet high, bearing a crown of gigantic fan-shaped leaves which are used as umbrellas and as fans in ceremonial processions, and, when cut into strips, as a substitute for writing paper.
n.
A magical figure cut or engraved under certain superstitious observances of the configuration of the heavens, to which wonderful effects are ascribed; the seal, figure, character, or image, of a heavenly sign, constellation, or planet, engraved on a sympathetic stone, or on a metal corresponding to the star, in order to receive its influence.
n.
Hence, something that produces extraordinary effects, esp. in averting or repelling evil; an amulet; a charm; as, a talisman to avert diseases.
a.
Of or pertaining to a talisman; having the properties of a talisman, or preservative against evils by occult influence; magical.
n.
To utter words; esp., to converse familiarly; to speak, as in familiar discourse, when two or more persons interchange thoughts.
n.
To confer; to reason; to consult.
n.
To prate; to speak impertinently.
v. t.
To speak freely; to use for conversing or communicating; as, to talk French.
v. t.
To deliver in talking; to speak; to utter; to make a subject of conversation; as, to talk nonsense; to talk politics.
v. t.
To consume or spend in talking; -- often followed by away; as, to talk away an evening.
v. t.
To cause to be or become by talking.
n.
The act of talking; especially, familiar converse; mutual discourse; that which is uttered, especially in familiar conversation, or the mutual converse of two or more.
n.
Report; rumor; as, to hear talk of war.
n.
Subject of discourse; as, his achievment is the talk of the town.
a.
Given to much talking.