資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Speak \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.

            [He will] 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.