Definition of "talke" [talke]

• Obsolete spelling of talk. (verb)

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• "The ende of our talke was a strange spech of Mr. Kelly to Fr. Puccy."
• "As figures be the instruments of ornament in euery language, so be they also in a sorte abuses or rather trespasses in speach, because they passe the ordinary limits of common vtterance, and be occupied of purpose to deceiue the eare and also the minde, drawing it from plainnesse and simplicitie to a certaine doublenesse, whereby our talke is the more guilefull & abusing, for what els is your _Metaphor_ but an inuersion of sence by transport; your _allegorie_ by a duplicitie of meaning or dissimulation vnder couert and darke intendments: one while speaking obscurely and in riddle called _Ænigma_: another while by common prouerbe or Adage called _Paremia_: then by merry skoffe called _Ironia_: then by bitter tawnt called _Sarcasmus_: then by periphrase or circumlocution when all might be said in a word or two: then by incredible comparison giuing credit, as by your _Hyperbole_, and many other waies seeking to inueigle and appassionate the mind: which thing made the graue iudges _Areopagites_"
• "Romney will seek to talke states in the "rust belt" of the country like Michigan and Ohio, where many white blue collar voters supported the Democrat in 2008 amid a severe economic crisis."