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- English Word Tongue Definition Honorable discourse; eulogy.
- English Word Tongue Definition A language; the whole sum of words used by a particular nation; as, the English tongue.
- English Word Tongue Definition Speech; words or declarations only; -- opposed to thoughts or actions.
- English Word Tongue Definition A people having a distinct language.
- English Word Tongue Definition The lingual ribbon, or odontophore, of a mollusk.
- English Word Tongue Definition The proboscis of a moth or a butterfly.
- English Word Tongue Definition The lingua of an insect.
- English Word Tongue Definition Any small sole.
- English Word Tongue Definition That which is considered as resembing an animal's tongue, in position or form.
- English Word Tongue Definition A projection, or slender appendage or fixture; as, the tongue of a buckle, or of a balance.
- English Word Tongue Definition A projection on the side, as of a board, which fits into a groove.
- English Word Tongue Definition A point, or long, narrow strip of land, projecting from the mainland into a sea or a lake.
- English Word Tongue Definition The pole of a vehicle; especially, the pole of an ox cart, to the end of which the oxen are yoked.
- English Word Tongue Definition The clapper of a bell.
- English Word Tongue Definition A short piece of rope spliced into the upper part of standing backstays, etc.; also. the upper main piece of a mast composed of several pieces.
- English Word Tongue Definition Same as Reed, n., 5.
- English Word Tongue Definition To speak; to utter.
- English Word Tongue Definition To chide; to scold.
- English Word Tongue Definition To modulate or modify with the tongue, as notes, in playing the flute and some other wind instruments.
- English Word Tongue Definition To join means of a tongue and grove; as, to tongue boards together.
- English Word Tongue Definition To talk; to prate.
- English Word Tongue Definition To use the tongue in forming the notes, as in playing the flute and some other wind instruments.
- English Word Tongue-pad Definition A great talker.
- English Word Tongue-shaped Definition Shaped like a tongue; specifically (Bot.), linear or oblong, and fleshy, blunt at the end, and convex beneath; as, a tongue-shaped leaf.
- English Word Tongue-shell Definition Any species of Lingula.
- English Word Tongue-tie Definition Impeded motion of the tongue because of the shortness of the fraenum, or of the adhesion of its margins to the gums.
- English Word Tongue-tie Definition To deprive of speech or the power of speech, or of distinct articulation.
- English Word Tongue-tied Definition Destitute of the power of distinct articulation; having an impediment in the speech, esp. when caused by a short fraenum.
- English Word Tongue-tied Definition Unable to speak freely, from whatever cause.
- English Word Tonguebird Definition The wryneck.