Talk; words; matter; tattle; desultory remarks; seasonable language; pleasant gossip; table talk; anecdote.
Secondary to this signification, and in intimate connection, it has oftentimes been employed to denote designs for the moment, whether mental or expressed by word of mouth, embracing intent and resolution.
When signifying news, the synonyms will be:
Announcement; intelligence; newspaper; advice; advertisement; admonition; warning; teaching; tale telling; history; fables; anecdotal remarks.
Seven of Diamonds—Reversed. This card is capable, when emerging reversed, of receiving several interpretations, the general and primary one of which is birth, or the origin of a human being, or of matter which has, as its synonyms:
Nativity; origin; creation; source; commencement; principle; primitive; extraction; first coming in of fruits and flowers; prime; early; race; family; house; lineage; posterity; the reason for; cause; premises for argument.
This card frequently designates a great deal, or a large quantity, qualifying the value of those cards next to it. For example, should it come before the ten of spades reversed, or the ten of clubs, it will read a great deal of jealousy, or of money.
Commingled with cards, relating to a public or military official, this one is taken to signify declaration, whose synonyms would consequently be:
Publication; orders; authenticity; approbation; placard; designation; discovery; disclosure; revelation; confession.
King of Hearts—Upright. The primary significations of this card are a blonde man, an advocate and a man of note, but its secondary significations are those attached to the state and legislation.