(n.) The power of the mind to reason or infer by running, as
it were, from one fact or reason to another, and deriving a conclusion;
an exercise or act of this power; reasoning; range of reasoning
faculty.
(n.) Conversation; talk.
(n.) The art and manner of speaking and conversing.
(n.) Consecutive speech, either written or unwritten, on a
given line of thought; speech; treatise; dissertation; sermon, etc.;
as, the preacher gave us a long discourse on duty.
(n.) Dealing; transaction.
(v. i.) To exercise reason; to employ the mind in judging and
inferring; to reason.
(v. i.) To express one's self in oral discourse; to expose
one's views; to talk in a continuous or formal manner; to hold forth;
to speak; to converse.
(v. i.) To relate something; to tell.
(v. i.) To treat of something in writing and formally.
(v. t.) To treat of; to expose or set forth in language.
(v. t.) To utter or give forth; to speak.
(v. t.) To talk to; to confer with.
