3. To consume or spend in talking; — often followed by away; as, to talk away an evening.
4. To cause to be or become by talking. "They would talk themselves mad." Shak. To talk over. (a) To talk about; to have conference respecting; to deliberate upon; to discuss; as, to talk over a matter or plan. (b) To change the mind or opinion of by talking; to convince; as, to talk over an opponent.
TALK
Talk, n.
1. The act of talking; especially, familiar converse; mutual discourse; that which is uttered, especially in familiar conversation, or the mutual converse of two or more. In various talk the instructive hours they passed. Pope. Their talk, when it was not made up of nautical phrases, was too commonly made up of oaths and curses. Macaulay.
2. Report; rumor; as, to hear talk of war. I hear a talk up and down of raising our money. Locke.
3. Subject of discourse; as, his achievment is the talk of the town.
Syn. — Conversation; colloquy; discourse; chat; dialogue; conference; communication. See Conversation.
TALKATIVE
Talk"a*tive, a.
Defn: Given to much talking.
Syn.
— Garrulous; loquacious. See Garrulous.
— Talk"a*tive*ly, adv.
— Talk"a*tive*ness, n.