3. To utter a speech, discourse, or harangue; to adress a public assembly formally. Many of the nobility made themselves popular by speaking in Parliament against those things which were most grateful to his majesty. Clarendon.
4. To discourse; to make mention; to tell. Lycan speaks of a part of Cæsar's army that came to him from the Leman Lake. Addison.
5. To give sound; to sound. Make all our trumpets speak. Shak.
6. To convey sentiments, ideas, or intelligence as if by utterance;
as, features that speak of self-will.
Thine eye begins to speak. Shak.
To speak of, to take account of, to make mention of. Robynson (More's
Utopia).
— To speak out, to speak loudly and distinctly; also, to speak
unreservedly.
— To speak well for, to commend; to be favorable to.
— To speak with, to converse with. "Would you speak with me" Shak.
Syn. — To say; tell; talk; converse; discourse; articulate; pronounce; utter.
SPEAK
Speak, v. t.
1. To utter with the mouth; to pronounce; to utter articulately, as human beings. They sat down with him upn ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him. Job. ii. 13.
2. To utter in a word or words; to say; to tell; to declare orally; as, to speak the truth; to speak sense.
3. To declare; to proclaim; to publish; to make known; to exhibit; to
express in any way.
It is my father;s muste To speak your deeds. Shak.
Speaking a still good morrow with her eyes. Tennyson.
And for the heaven's wide circuit, let it speak The maker's high
magnificence. Milton.
Report speaks you a bonny monk. Sir W. Scott.
4. To talk or converse in; to utter or pronounce, as in conversation; as, to speak Latin. And French she spake full fair and fetisely. Chaucer.