Definition of peak

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Peak (n.) The upper aftermost corner of a fore-and-aft sail; -- used in many combinations; as, peak-halyards, peak-brails, etc..

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Extemporize :: Extemporize (v. i.) To speak extempore; especially, to discourse without special preparation; to make an offhand address..
Enlarge :: Enlarge (v. i.) To speak or write at length; to be diffuse in speaking or writing; to expatiate; to dilate.
Peaky :: Peaky (a.) Having a peak or peaks.
Thither :: Thither (a.) Being on the farther side from the person speaking; farther; -- a correlative of hither; as, on the thither side of the water..
Discourse :: Discourse (v. i.) To express one's self in oral discourse; to expose one's views; to talk in a continuous or formal manner; to hold forth; to speak; to converse.
Pleonasm :: Pleonasm (n.) Redundancy of language in speaking or writing; the use of more words than are necessary to express the idea; as, I saw it with my own eyes..
Carp :: Carp (v. i.) To talk; to speak; to prattle.
Mute :: Mute (n.) One who does not speak, whether from physical inability, unwillingness, or other cause..
Backbite :: Backbite (v. i.) To wound by clandestine detraction; to censure meanly or spitefully (an absent person); to slander or speak evil of (one absent).
Sublime :: Sublime (n.) A grand or lofty style in speaking or writing; a style that expresses lofty conceptions.
Fix :: Fix (v. t.) To hold steadily; to direct unwaveringly; to fasten, as the eye on an object, the attention on a speaker..
Taciturn :: Taciturn (a.) Habitually silent; not given to converse; not apt to talk or speak.
Language :: Language (n.) The characteristic mode of arranging words, peculiar to an individual speaker or writer; manner of expression; style..
Un- :: Un- (adv.) Those which have the value of independent words, inasmuch as the simple words are either not used at all, or are rarely, or at least much less frequently, used; as, unavoidable, unconscionable, undeniable, unspeakable, unprecedented, unruly, and the like; or inasmuch as they are used in a different sense from the usual meaning of the primitive, or especially in one of the significations of the latter; as, unaccountable, unalloyed, unbelieving, unpretending, unreserved, and the like; o
Maunder :: Maunder (v. i.) To mutter; to mumble; to grumble; to speak indistinctly or disconnectedly; to talk incoherently.
Look :: Look (v. i.) To show one's self in looking, as by leaning out of a window; as, look out of the window while I speak to you. Sometimes used figuratively..
Declaim :: Declaim (v. i.) To speak rhetorically; to make a formal speech or oration; to harangue; specifically, to recite a speech, poem, etc., in public as a rhetorical exercise; to practice public speaking; as, the students declaim twice a week..
Philippize :: Philippize (v. i.) To write or speak in the style of a philippic.
Prate :: Prate (v. t.) To utter foolishly; to speak without reason or purpose; to chatter, or babble..
Imagery :: Imagery (n.) Rhetorical decoration in writing or speaking; vivid descriptions presenting or suggesting images of sensible objects; figures in discourse.
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