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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 talk v. i. [imp. & p. p. talked p. pr. & vb. n. talking.]
 1. To utter words; esp., to converse familiarly; to speak, as in familiar discourse, when two or more persons interchange thoughts.
    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.
 2. To confer; to reason; to consult.
    Let me talk with thee of thy judgments.   --Jer. xii. 1.
 3. To prate; to speak impertinently. [Colloq.]
 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.]