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[SPAY, 8. ] Her.: A stag in his third year. speak, *speake, *speke (pa. t. * spak , * spake , spoke , pa. par. * spoke , spoken), v. i. & t . [For spreak , from A. S. sprecan , spec an (pa. t. spræc , spæc , pa. par. sprecen ); cogn. with Dut, spreken; Sw. språka : O. H. Ger. sprehhan ; Ger. sprechen ( pa.t.sprach ). From the same root as Icel.spraka ; Dan. sprage to crackle; Dan. sprække =to crack, to burst.] A. Intransitive : 1. To utter words or articulate sounds; to expre thoughts by words. " Speak , Lord, for thy servant heareth."-1 Samuel iii. 9. 2. To utter a speech, discourse, or harangue; to utter thoughts in a public a embly; to harangue, to discourse. 3. To talk for or against; to expre opinions; to dispute. "He was your enemy; still spake against Your liberties." Shakesp.: Coriolanus , ii. 3. 4. To discourse, to make mention, to tell in writing. "The scripture speaks only of those to whom it speaks." -Hammond . 5. To give out sound; to sound. "Make all your trumpets speak, give them all breath." Shakesp.: Macbeth, v. 6. 6. To bark or yelp. (Said of hounds following scent.) "The hounds could not speak to a line in the covert." Field , Dec. 26, 1885. 7. To communicate ideas in any manner; to expre thought generally; to be expre ive. ""A sail! a sail!'-a promised prize to Hope! Her nation-flag-how speaks the telescope?" B. Transitive : Byron: Corsair , i. 3. 1. To utter with the mouth; to utter articulately: to pronounce. 2. To tell, to say, to announce, to declare orally. 3. To tell, to report, to declare, to expre , to communicate. "To speak my griefs unspeakable." Shakesp.: Comedy of Errors , i. 1. 4. To proclaim, to declare. *5. To exhibit, to make known, to declare; to expre in any way. 6. To talk or converse in; to understand so as to De able to expre one's self intelligently in. *7. To addre , to accost. Speak is an indefinite term, specifying no circumstance of the action; we speak from various motives; the discourse derives its value from the nature of the subject, as well as the character of the speaker; we speak on any subject and in any manner; we discourse formally; parents and teachers discourse with young persons on mor 1 duties. A. Transitive : 1. Lit .: To produce and deposit, as fish their eggs. 2. Fig .: To bring forth, to produce, to generate. (Used in contempt.) "And 'twas the plague of countries and of cities, When that great bellied house did spawn committees." Brome : Speech to General Monk. B. Intransitive: 1. Lit .: To deposit eggs, as fish or frogs. "I think about that time he spawns ." -Walton : Angler , pt. i., ch. xiv. *2. Fig .: To i ue, to proceed, as offspring. (Used in contempt.) "It is so ill a quality, and the mother of so many ill ones that spawn from it, that a child should be brought up in the greatest abhorrence of it."-Locke.