Speech

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun ny declaration of thoughts.

II. Speech ·noun Talk; mention; common saying.

III. Speech ·noun formal discourse in public; oration; harangue.

IV. Speech ·noun A particular language, as distinct from others; a tongue; a dialect.

V. Speech ·vi & ·vt To make a speech; to Harangue.

VI. Speech ·noun he act of speaking; that which is spoken; words, as expressing ideas; language; conversation.

VII. Speech ·noun The faculty of uttering articulate sounds or words; the faculty of expressing thoughts by words or articulate sounds; the power of speaking.