#585.  Taciturnity. —­ N. silence, muteness, obmutescence[obs3];
taciturnity, pauciloquy[obs3], costiveness|, curtness; reserve, reticence &c. (concealment) 528.
     man of few words. 
     V. be silent &c. adj.; keep silence, keep mum; hold one’s tongue,
hold one’s peace, hold one’s jaw; not speak. &c. 582; say nothing, keep one’s counsel; seal the lips, close the lips, button the lips, zipper the lips, put a padlock on the lips, put a padlock on the mouth; put a bridle on one’s tongue; bite one’s tongue, keep one’s tongue between one’s teeth; make no sign, not let a word escape one; keep a secret &c. 528; not have a word to say; hush up, hush, lay the finger on the lips, place the finger on the lips; render mute &c. 581.
     stick in one’s throat. 
     Adj. silent, mute, mum; silent as a post, silent as a stone, silent as
the grave &c. (still) 403; dumb &c. 581; unconversable[obs3].
     taciturn, sparing of words; closetongued; costive|, inconversable|,
curt; reserved; reticent &c. (concealing) 528. 
     Int. shush! tush! silence! mum! hush! chut[obs3]! hist! tut!
chup[obs3]! mum’s the word; keep your mouth shut![vulgar]. 
     Phr. cave quid dicis quando et cui[Lat]; volto sciolto i pensieri
stretti[It].

     #586.  Allocution. —­ N. allocution, alloquy|, address; speech &c. 582;
apostrophe, interpellation, appeal, invocation, salutation; word in the ear.
     [Feigned dialogue] dialogism[obs3].
     platform &c. 542; plank; audience &c. (interview) 588. 
     V. speak to, address, accost, make up to, apostrophize, appeal to,
invoke; ball, salute; call to, halloo.
     take aside, take by the button; talk to in private.
     lecture &c. (make a speech) 582. 
     Int. soho[obs3]! halloo! hey! hist!

     #587.  Response —­ N. &c., see Answer 462.

     #588.  Conversation. —­ N. conversation, interlocution;
collocution[obs3], colloquy, converse, confabulation, talk, discourse, verbal intercourse; oral communication, commerce; dialogue, duologue, trialogue.
     causerie, chat, chitchat; small talk, table talk, teatable talk[obs3],
town talk, village talk, idle talk; tattle, gossip, tittle-tattle; babble, babblement[obs3]; tripotage[obs3], cackle, prittle-prattle[obs3], cancan, on dit[Fr]; talk of the town, talk of the village.
     conference, parley, interview, audience, pourparler; tete-a-tete;
reception, conversazione[It]; congress &c. (council) 696; powwow [U.  S.].
     hall of audience, durbar[obs3].
     palaver, debate, logomachy[obs3], war of words.
     gossip, tattler; Paul Pry; tabby; chatterer &c. (loquacity) 584;
interlocutor &c. (spokesman) 582; conversationist[obs3], dialogist[obs3].
     “the feast of reason and the flow of soul” [Pope]; mollia tempora
fandi[Lat][obs3]. 
     V. talk together, converse, confabulate; hold on a conversation, carry
on a conversation, join in a conversation, engage