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upon a jury or inquest, and not appearing, or challenged; 
equal in reputation to those that were impannelled, and 
present in court; tales de circumstantibus. —Twelve re¬ 
turned upon the principal pannel, or the tales, are sworn to 
try according to their evidence. Hale. 
TA'LETELLER, s. One who relates tales or stories.— 
Tale-tellers , in the north of Ireland, are hired lo tell stories 
of giants and enchanters, to lull people asleep. Guardian. 
TALGARTH, a parish of Wales, in Breconshire, 10 miles 
from the town of Brecon. In the neighbourhood is an ex¬ 
tensive lake abounding in pike, perch, trout, &c. It has six 
annual fairs, in March, May, July, September, November 
and December. Population 606. 
TALI, a city of China, of the first rank, in the province 
of Yunan, situated on a large lake. In the neighbourhood 
are mountains producing a species of marble beautifully va¬ 
riegated with different colours, exhibiting the appearance of 
hills, flowers, trees and rivers. This is fashioned by the in¬ 
habitants into tables and other pieces of ornamental furniture, 
for which there is a great demand over China. Lat. 25. 
45. N. long. 100, E. 
TALINUM, in Botany, a genus of Adanson’s, separated 
by him from the Linneean Portulaca. See that article. 
TA'LION, s. [folio, Lat. “ lex talionis.”] Law of reta¬ 
liation. Scott. —Crimes not capital were punished by fines, 
flagellation, and the law of talion, eye for eye. Geddes. 
TAL1SCAYAN, a settlement of Mexico, in the province 
of Vera Cruz; 24 miles south of Vera Cruz. 
TA'LISMAN, s. [talism, Arabic. The Arabian talis¬ 
mans are said to have been images made under such and 
such constellations, to receive the heavenly influences; either 
to be a phylactery, or an oracle. See Patrick on Gen. xxxi. 
19.] A magical character. 
Of talismans and sigils knew the power, 
And careful watch’d the planetary hour. Pope, 
TALISMA'NIC, adj. [from talisman] Magical—The 
figure of a heart bleeding apon an altar, or held in the hand 
of a Cupid, has always been looked upon as talismanic in 
dresses of this nature. Addison. 
TALISSE, a small island in the Eastern seas, near the 
north coast of the island of Celebes. Lat. 1. 40. N. long. 
124. 50. E. 
To TALK, v. n. [calian, Saxon; tacltn, Dutch.] To 
speak in conversation ; to speak fluently and familiarly; not 
in set speeches: to converse.—I will buy with you, sell with 
you, talk with you: but I will not eat with you. Shak- 
speare. —To prattle; to speak impertinently.—Hypocrites 
austerely talk of purity. Milton. —My heedless tongue has 
talk'd away this life, llotve. —Consider well the time when 
Petavius first began to talk in that manner. Waterland. — 
To give account; to speak ; to reason; to confer.—Let me 
talk with thee of thy judgments. Jer. 
TALK, s. Oral conversation; fluent and familiar speech. 
We do remember; but our argument 
Is too heavy to admit much talk. Shakspeare. 
Report; rumour.—I hear a talk up and down of raising 
our money, as a means to retain our wealth, and keep our 
money from being carried away. Locke. —Subject of dis¬ 
course. 
What delight to be by such extoll’d, 
To live upon their tongues and be their talk, 
Of whom to be despis’d were no small praise ? Milton. 
TALK, (properly talc.) s. [talc, Fr.] A kind of stone. 
—Stones composed of plates are generally parallel, and 
flexible and elastic: as, talk, cat-silver or glimmer, of which 
there are three sorts, the yellow or golden, the white or 
silvery, and the black. Woodward. —Venetian talk kept 
in a heat of a glass furnace, though brittle and discoloured, 
had not lost much of its bulk, and seemed nearer of kin to 
talk than mere earth. Boyle. 
TALKAN, a village of Irak, in Persia, 30 miles east of 
Sultania. 
TA'LKATIVE, adj. Full of prate; loquacious. 
The coxcomb bird so talkative and grave, 
That from his cage cries cuckold, whore, and knave; 
Though many a passenger he rightly call, 
You hold him no philosopher at all. 
TA'LKATIVENESS, s. Loquacity ; garrulity ; fulness 
of prate.—We call this talkativeness a feminine voice; but 
he that shall appropriate loquacity to women, may perhaps 
sometimes need to light Diogenes’s candle to seek a man. 
TA'LKER, s. One who talks.—Let me give, for instance, 
some of those writers or talkers who deal much in the 
words Nature or Fate. Watts. —A loquacious person; a 
prattler. 
Keep me company but two years, 
Thou shalt not know the sound of thine own tongue. 
—Farewell, I’ll grow a talker for this jeer. Shakspeare. 
A boaster; a bragging fellow.—The greatest talkers in 
the days of peace, have been the most pusillanimous in the 
day of temptation. Bp. Taylor. 
TALKIN, a township of England, in Cumberland; 11 
miles east-by-north of Carlisle. 
TA'LKING, Oral conversation.—Neither filthiness, 
nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient. 
Ephes. 
TA'LKY, adj. Consisting of talc; resembling talc.— 
The tally flakes in the strata were all formed before the sub¬ 
sistence, along with the sand. Woodward. 
TALL, adj. [tcil, Welsh.] High in stature.—Bring word 
how tall she is. Shakspeare. —High; lofty. 
Winds rush’d abroad 
From the four hinges of the world, and fell 
On the vext wilderness, whose tallest pines. 
Though rooted deep as high, and sturdiest oaks 
Bow’d their stiff necks. Milton. 
Sturdy; lusty ; bold; spirited ; courageous.—I’ll swear 
thou art a tall fellow of thy hands, and that thou wilt not 
be drunk; but I know thou art no tall fellow of thy hands, 
and that thou wilt be drunk ; but I would thou wouldst be a 
tall fellow of thy hands. Shakspeare. 
TALLACHDU, a parish of Wales, in Breconshire; 170 
miles west-by-north of London. 
TA'LLAGE, s. [taillage, Fr.] Impost; excise.—The 
people of Spain were better affected unto Philip than to Fer- 
dinando, because he had imposed upon them many taxes 
and tallages. Bacon. 
To TA'LLAGE, v. a. To lay an impost on.—Edward I. 
tallaged his demesnes very heavily, by commissioners of 
his own. Bp. Etlys. 
TALLAGH, a decayed village of Ireland, in the county 
of Waterford, near the river Bride, which is so far navigable 
for boats. It was erected into a burgh by James I., at the 
solicitation of the Earl of Cork. Its liberties extended one 
mile in all directions from the church, considered as the 
centre. It was never a walled town, nor considered a place 
affording any strong natural defence: however, in the re¬ 
bellion of the year 1641, an intrenchment was cast round it 
by the Earl of Cork, for the protection of the inhabitants 
against the sudden inroads of the rebels. It returned two 
members to parliament previous to the union with Great 
Britain. There is a barrack in the town; and at the west 
end of the bridge lie the ruins of Lessfinny castle, formerly 
the property of Earl Desmond; 104 miles south-south-west 
of Dublin, 23 west-north-west of Cork, and 32 west-south- 
west of Waterford. 
TALLAND, a parish of England, in Cornwall, situated 
upon the English Channel; 2 miles south-west-by-south of 
West Looe. Population 801. 
TALLANTINE, a hamlet of England, in Cumberland; 
3 miles north-north-west of Cockermouth. 
TALLAPOOSA, or Oakfusske, a river of the United 
States, which rises in Georgia, enters the Alabama territory, 
flows south west, and unites with the Coosa, 3 miles south¬ 
west of Fort Jackson, to form the Alabama. It is navigable, 
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