| tongue | (n) a mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity, Syn. lingua, glossa, clapper |
| tongue | (n) any long thin projection that is transient, Syn. knife, Example: tongues of flame licked at the walls; rifles exploded quick knives of fire into the dark |
| tongue | (n) a manner of speaking, Example: he spoke with a thick tongue; she has a glib tongue |
| tongue | (n) the tongue of certain animals used as meat |
| tongue | (n) the flap of material under the laces of a shoe or boot |
| tongue | (v) articulate by tonguing, as when playing wind instruments |
| tongue | (v) lick or explore with the tongue |
| tongue and groove joint | (n) a mortise joint made by fitting a projection on the edge of one board into a matching groove on another board |
| tongue depressor | (n) a thin depressor used to press the tongue down during an examination of the mouth and throat |
| tonguefish | (n) left-eyed marine flatfish whose tail tapers to a point; of little commercial value, Syn. tongue-fish |
| Tongue | v. t. How might she tongue me. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Tongue | n. [ OE. tunge, tonge, AS. tunge; akin to OFries. tunge, D. tong, OS. tunga, G. zunge, OHG. zunga, Icel. & Sw. tunga, Dan tunge, Goth. tuggō, OL. dingua, L. lingua. √243 Cf.Language, Lingo. ] [ 1913 Webster ] ☞ The tongue is usually muscular, mobile, and free at one extremity, and in man other mammals is the principal organ of taste, aids in the prehension of food, in swallowing, and in modifying the voice as in speech. [ 1913 Webster ] To make his English sweet upon his tongue. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ] Parrots imitating human tongue. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ] Much tongue and much judgment seldom go together. L. Estrange. [ 1913 Webster ] She was born noble; let that title find her a private grave, but neither tongue nor honor. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ] Whose tongue thou shalt not understand. Deut. xxviii. 49. [ 1913 Webster ] To speak all tongues. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ] My little children, let us love in word, neither in tongue, but in deed and in truth. 1 John iii. 18. [ 1913 Webster ] A will gather all nations and tongues. Isa. lxvi. 18. [ 1913 Webster ] [ 1913 Webster ]
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| Tongue | v. i. |
| Tonguebird | n. The wryneck.[ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Tongued | a. Having a tongue. [ 1913 Webster ] Tongued like the night crow. Donne. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Tonguefish | n. (Zool.) A flounder (Symphurus plagiusa) native of the southern coast of the United States. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Tongueless | a. One good deed dying tongueless. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Tonguelet | n. A little tongue. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Tongue-pad | n. A great talker. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Tongue-shaped | a. Shaped like a tongue; specifically (Bot.), linear or oblong, and fleshy, blunt at the end, and convex beneath; |
| トング | [tongu] (n) tongs [Add to Longdo] |