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

  talk \talk\ (t[add]k), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {talked} (t[add]kt);
     p. pr. & vb. n. {talking}.] [Cf. LG. talk talk, gabble, Prov.
     G. talken to speak indistinctly; or OD. tolken to interpret,
     MHG. tolkan to interpret, to tell, to speak indistinctly,
     Dan. tolke to interpret, Sw. tolka, Icel. t[=u]lka to
     interpret, t[=u]lkr an interpreter, Lith. tulkas an


     interpreter, tulkanti, tulk[=o]ti, to interpret, Russ.
     tolkovate to interpret, to talk about; or perhaps fr. OE.
     talien to speak (see {tale}, v. i. & n.).]
     1. To utter words; esp., to converse familiarly; to speak, as
        in familiar discourse, when two or more persons
        interchange thoughts.
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              I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you,
              walk with you, and so following, but I will not eat
              with you.                             --Shak.
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     2. To confer; to reason; to consult.
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              Let me talk with thee of thy judgments. --Jer. xii.
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     3. To prate; to speak impertinently. [Colloq.]
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     {To talk of}, to relate; to tell; to give an account of; as,
        authors talk of the wonderful remains of Palmyra. "The
        natural histories of Switzerland talk much of the fall of
        these rocks, and the great damage done." --Addison.
  
     {To talk to}, to advise or exhort, or to reprove gently; as,
        I will talk to my son respecting his conduct. [Colloq.]
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