#582.  Speech. —­ N. speech, faculty of speech; locution, talk,
parlance, verbal intercourse, prolation[obs3], oral communication, word of mouth, parole, palaver, prattle; effusion.
     oration, recitation, delivery, say, speech, lecture, harangue, sermon,
tirade, formal speech, peroration; speechifying; soliloquy &c. 589; allocution &c. 586; conversation &c. 588; salutatory; screed; valedictory [U.S.][U.S.].
     oratory; elocution, eloquence; rhetoric, declamation; grandiloquence,
multiloquence[obs3]; burst of eloquence; facundity[obs3]; flow of words, command of words, command of language; copia verborum[Lat]; power of speech, gift of the gab; usus loquendi[Lat].
     speaker &c. v.; spokesman; prolocutor, interlocutor; mouthpiece,
Hermes; orator, oratrix[obs3], oratress[obs3]; Demosthenes, Cicero; rhetorician; stump orator, platform orator; speechmaker, patterer[obs3], improvisatore[obs3]. 
     V. speak of; say, utter, pronounce, deliver, give utterance to; utter
forth, pour forth; breathe, let fall, come out with; rap out, blurt out have on one’s lips; have at the end of one’s tongue, have at the tip of one’s tongue.
     break silence; open one’s lips, open one’s mouth; lift one’s voice,
raise one’s voice; give the tongue, wag the tongue; talk, outspeak[obs3]; put in a word or two.
     hold forth; make a speech,.deliver a speech &c. n.; speechify,
harangue, declaim, stump, flourish, recite, lecture, sermonize, discourse, be on one’s legs; have one’s say, say one’s say; spout, rant, rave, vent one’s fury, vent one’s rage; expatiate &c. (speak at length) 573; speak one’s mind, go on the stump, take the stump [U.  S.].
     soliloquize &c. 589; tell &c. (inform) 527; speak to &c. 586; talk
together &c. 588.
     be eloquent &c. adj; have a tongue in one’s head, have the gift of the
gab &c. n. pass one’s lips, escape one’s lips; fall from the lips, fall from the mouth. 
     Adj. speaking &c., spoken &c. v.; oral, lingual, phonetic, not
written, unwritten, outspoken; eloquent, elocutionary; oratorical, rhetorical; declamatory; grandiloquent &c. 577; talkative &c. 584; Ciceronian, nuncupative, Tullian. 
     Adv. orally &c. adj.; by word of mouth, viva voce, from the lips of. 
     Phr. quoth he, said he &c.; “action is eloquence” [Coriolanus]; “pour
the full tide of eloquence along” [Pope]; “she speaks poignards and every word stabs” [Much Ado About Nothing]; “speech is but broken light upon the depth of the unspoken [G.  Eliot]; “to try thy eloquence now ’tis time [Antony and Cleopatra].

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