Found 1 items, similar to To speak a ship.
English → English (gcide) Definition: To speak a ship Speak \Speak\, v. t. 1. To utter with the mouth; to pronounce; to utter articulately, as human beings. [1913 Webster] They sat down with him upn ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him. --Job. ii. 13. [1913 Webster] 2. To utter in a word or words; to say; to tell; to declare orally; as, to speak the truth; to speak sense. [1913 Webster] 3. To declare; to proclaim; to publish; to make known; to exhibit; to express in any way. [1913 Webster] It is my father;s muste To speak your deeds. --Shak. [1913 Webster] Speaking a still good morrow with her eyes. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster] And for the heaven's wide circuit, let it speak The maker's high magnificence. --Milton. [1913 Webster] Report speaks you a bonny monk. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster] 4. To talk or converse in; to utter or pronounce, as in conversation; as, to speak Latin. [1913 Webster] And French she spake full fair and fetisely. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] 5. To address; to accost; to speak to. [1913 Webster] [He will] thee in hope; he will speak thee fair. --Ecclus. xiii. 6. [1913 Webster] each village senior paused to scan And speak the lovely caravan. --Emerson. [1913 Webster] To speak a ship (Naut.), to hail and speak to her captain or commander. [1913 Webster]