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- English Word Talipot Definition A beautiful tropical palm tree (Corypha umbraculifera), a native of Ceylon and the Malabar coast. It has a trunk sixty or seventy feet high, bearing a crown of gigantic fan-shaped leaves which are used as umbrellas and as fans in ceremonial processions, and, when cut into strips, as a substitute for writing paper.
- English Word Talisman Definition A magical figure cut or engraved under certain superstitious observances of the configuration of the heavens, to which wonderful effects are ascribed; the seal, figure, character, or image, of a heavenly sign, constellation, or planet, engraved on a sympathetic stone, or on a metal corresponding to the star, in order to receive its influence.
- English Word Talisman Definition Hence, something that produces extraordinary effects, esp. in averting or repelling evil; an amulet; a charm; as, a talisman to avert diseases.
- English Word Talismanic Definition Alt. of Talismanical
- English Word Talismanical Definition Of or pertaining to a talisman; having the properties of a talisman, or preservative against evils by occult influence; magical.
- English Word Talismans Definition of Talisman
- English Word Talk Definition To utter words; esp., to converse familiarly; to speak, as in familiar discourse, when two or more persons interchange thoughts.
- English Word Talk Definition To confer; to reason; to consult.
- English Word Talk Definition To prate; to speak impertinently.
- English Word Talk Definition To speak freely; to use for conversing or communicating; as, to talk French.
- English Word Talk Definition To deliver in talking; to speak; to utter; to make a subject of conversation; as, to talk nonsense; to talk politics.
- English Word Talk Definition To consume or spend in talking; -- often followed by away; as, to talk away an evening.
- English Word Talk Definition To cause to be or become by talking.
- English Word Talk Definition 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.
- English Word Talk Definition Report; rumor; as, to hear talk of war.
- English Word Talk Definition Subject of discourse; as, his achievment is the talk of the town.
- English Word Talkative Definition Given to much talking.
- English Word Talked Definition of Talk
- English Word Talker Definition One who talks; especially, one who is noted for his power of conversing readily or agreeably; a conversationist.
- English Word Talker Definition A loquacious person, male or female; a prattler; a babbler; also, a boaster; a braggart; -- used in contempt or reproach.
- English Word Talking Definition of Talk
- English Word Talking Definition That talks; able to utter words; as, a talking parrot.
- English Word Talking Definition Given to talk; loquacious.
- English Word Tall Definition High in stature; having a considerable, or an unusual, extension upward; long and comparatively slender; having the diameter or lateral extent small in proportion to the height; as, a tall person, tree, or mast.
- English Word Tall Definition Brave; bold; courageous.
- English Word Tall Definition Fine; splendid; excellent; also, extravagant; excessive.
- English Word Tallage Definition Alt. of Talliage
- English Word Tallage Definition To lay an impost upon; to cause to pay tallage.
- English Word Talliage Definition A certain rate or tax paid by barons, knights, and inferior tenants, toward the public expenses.
- English Word Tallied Definition of Tally