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.
5. To address; to accost; to speak to.
thee in hope; he will speak thee fair. Ecclus. xiii. 6.
each village senior paused to scan
And speak the lovely caravan. Emerson.
To speak a ship(Naut.), to hail and speak to her captain or commander.