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.-conversation; talk.-the art and manner of speaking and conversing.-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.-dealing; transaction.-to exercise reason; to employ the mind in judging and inferring; to reason.-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.-to relate something; to tell.-to treat of something in writing and formally.-to treat of; to expose or set forth in language.-to utter or give forth; to speak.-to talk to; to confer with.