Definition of speaking

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Speaking (a.) Uttering speech; used for conveying speech; as, man is a speaking animal; a speaking tube..

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Outspoken :: Outspoken (a.) Speaking, or spoken, freely, openly, or boldly; as, an outspoken man; an outspoken rebuke..
Drawling :: Drawling (n.) The act of speaking with a drawl; a drawl.
Speech :: Speech (n.) he act of speaking; that which is spoken; words, as expressing ideas; language; conversation..
Honey-tongued :: Honey-tongued (a.) Sweet speaking; persuasive; seductive.
Shall :: Shall (v. i. & auxiliary.) As an auxiliary, shall indicates a duty or necessity whose obligation is derived from the person speaking; as, you shall go; he shall go; that is, I order or promise your going. It thus ordinarily expresses, in the second and third persons, a command, a threat, or a promise. If the auxillary be emphasized, the command is made more imperative, the promise or that more positive and sure. It is also employed in the language of prophecy; as, the day shall come when . .
Bilinguous :: Bilinguous (a.) Having two tongues, or speaking two languages..
Sublime :: Sublime (n.) A grand or lofty style in speaking or writing; a style that expresses lofty conceptions.
Modulate :: Modulate (v. t.) To vary or inflect in a natural, customary, or musical manner; as, the organs of speech modulate the voice in reading or speaking..
Panegyrist :: Panegyrist (n.) One who delivers a panegyric; a eulogist; one who extols or praises, either by writing or speaking..
Amoebaeum :: Amoebaeum (n.) A poem in which persons are represented at speaking alternately; as the third and seventh eclogues of Virgil.
Treat :: Treat (v. t.) To discourse on; to handle in a particular manner, in writing or speaking; as, to treat a subject diffusely..
Forespeaking :: Forespeaking (n.) A prediction; also, a preface..
Handle :: Handle (v. t.) To use or manage in writing or speaking; to treat, as a theme, an argument, or an objection..
Treat :: Treat (v. i.) To discourse; to handle a subject in writing or speaking; to make discussion; -- usually with of; as, Cicero treats of old age and of duties..
Rather :: Rather (a.) More properly; more correctly speaking.
Sensationalism :: Sensationalism (n.) The practice or methods of sensational writing or speaking; as, the sensationalism of a novel..
Enlarge :: Enlarge (v. i.) To speak or write at length; to be diffuse in speaking or writing; to expatiate; to dilate.
Thither :: Thither (a.) Being on the farther side from the person speaking; farther; -- a correlative of hither; as, on the thither side of the water..
Grammar :: Grammar (n.) The science which treats of the principles of language; the study of forms of speech, and their relations to one another; the art concerned with the right use aud application of the rules of a language, in speaking or writing..
Battology :: Battology (n.) A needless repetition of words in speaking or writing.
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