ROGET'S THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES ...

V. talk together, converse, confabulate; hold on a conversation, carry on a conversation,
join in a conversation, engage in a conversation; put in a word; shine in conversation;
bandy words; parley; palaver; chat, gossip, tattle; prate &c (loquacity) 584; powwow
[U.S.].
discourse with, confer with, commune with, commerce with; hold converse, hold
conference, hold intercourse; talk it over; be closeted with; talk with one in private, tetea-tete.
Adj. conversing &c v.; interlocutory; conversational, conversable † ; discursive,
discoursive † ; chatty &c (sociable) 892; colloquial.
Phr. with thee conversing I forget all time [Paradise Lost].
589. Soliloquy -- N. soliloquy, monologue, apostrophe; monology † .
V. Soliloquize; say to oneself, talk to oneself; say aside, think aloud, apostrophize.
Adj. soliloquizing &c v..
Adv. aside.
3. Written Language
590. Writing -- N. writing &c v.; chirography, stelography † , cerography † ; penmanship,
craftmanship † ; quill driving; typewriting.
writing, manuscript, MS., literae scriptae [Lat.]; these presents.
stroke of the pen, dash of the pen; coupe de plume; line; headline; pen and ink.
letter &c 561; uncial writing, cuneiform character, arrowhead, Ogham, Runes,
hieroglyphic; contraction; Brahmi † , Devanagari, Nagari; script.
shorthand; stenography, brachygraphy † , tachygraphy † ; secret writing, writing in
cipher; cryptography, stenography; phonography † , pasigraphy † , Polygraphy † ,
logography † .
copy; transcript, rescript; rough copy, fair copy; handwriting; signature, sign manual;
autograph, monograph, holograph; hand, fist.
calligraphy; good hand, running hand, flowing hand, cursive hand, legible hand, bold
hand.
cacography † , griffonage † , barbouillage † ; bad hand, cramped hand, crabbed hand,
illegible hand; scribble &c v.; pattes de mouche [Fr.]; ill-formed letters; pothooks and
hangers.
stationery; pen, quill, goose quill; pencil, style; paper, foolscap, parchment, vellum,
papyrus, tablet, slate, marble, pillar, table; blackboard; ink bottle, ink horn, ink pot, ink
stand, ink well; typewriter.
transcription &c (copy) 21; inscription &c (record) 551; superscription &c
(indication) 550; graphology.
composition, authorship; cacoethes scribendi [Lat.]; graphoidea † , graphomania † ;
phrenoia † .
writer, scribe, amanuensis, scrivener, secretary, clerk, penman, copyist, transcriber,
quill driver; stenographer, typewriter, typist; writer for the press &c (author) 593.