*tongu*

v. t. To attack with the tongue; to abuse; to insult. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) The knotgrass (Polygonum aviculare). [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Closemouthed; silent. “Close-tongued treason.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) A plant (Liatris odoratissima) whose fleshy leaves give out a fragrance compared to vanilla. Wood. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) Hound's-tongue. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Deceit; duplicity. [ 1913 Webster ]

Now cometh the sin of double-tongue, such as speak fair before folk and wickedly behind. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Making contrary declarations on the same subject; deceitful.
Syn. -- deceitful, double-faced, hypocritical, Janus-faced, two-faced. [ 1913 Webster ]

Likewise must the deacons be grave, not double-tongued. 1 Tim. iii. 8. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Mus.) A peculiar action of the tongue by flute players in articulating staccato notes; also, the rapid repetition of notes in cornet playing. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) A fungus of the genus Geoglossum.

n. same as egg-and-dart.
Syn. -- egg-and-anchor, egg-and-dart. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Speaking without reserve. Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (O. Law) A jury, for the trial of a foreigner, composed equally of citizens and aliens. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) (a) A common British fern (Scolopendrium vulgare), rare in America. (b) A West Indian fern, the Polypodium Phyllitidis of Linnaeus. It is also found in Florida. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Sweet speaking; persuasive; seductive. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. hundes tunge. ] (Bot.) A biennial weed (Cynoglossum officinale), with soft tongue-shaped leaves, and an offensive odor. It bears nutlets covered with barbed or hooked prickles. Called also dog's-tongue. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) The wryneck. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Having a long tongue. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Talkative; babbling; loquacious. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To silence by talk, clamor, or noise. [ R. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) A widespread European weed (Picris echioides formerly Helminthia echioides) with spiny tongue-shaped leaves and yellow flowers. The name is applied to several plants, from the shape and roughness of their leaves; as, Anchusa officinalis, a kind of bugloss, and Helminthia echioides, both European herbs. It has been naturalized in the U. S.
Syn. -- bristly oxtongue, prickly oxtongue, bitterweed, bugloss. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Of pleasing speech. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Having a forked tongue, like a serpent. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having a shrill voice. “When shrill-tongued Fulvia scolds.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. an unintentional utterance; a mistake in speaking.
Syn. -- slip of the lip. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

a. Having a smooth tongue; plausible; flattering. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) Same as Adder's-tongue. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Having a forked tongue, as that of snakes and some lizards. [ 1913 Webster ]

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 ]

1. (Anat.) an organ situated in the floor of the mouth of most vertebrates and connected with the hyoid arch. [ 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 ]

2. The power of articulate utterance; speech. [ 1913 Webster ]

Parrots imitating human tongue. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Discourse; fluency of speech or expression. [ 1913 Webster ]

Much tongue and much judgment seldom go together. L. Estrange. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Honorable discourse; eulogy. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

She was born noble; let that title find her a private grave, but neither tongue nor honor. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A language; the whole sum of words used by a particular nation; as, the English tongue. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Whose tongue thou shalt not understand. Deut. xxviii. 49. [ 1913 Webster ]

To speak all tongues. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. Speech; words or declarations only; -- opposed to thoughts or actions. [ 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 ]

7. A people having a distinct language. [ 1913 Webster ]

A will gather all nations and tongues. Isa. lxvi. 18. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. (Zool.) (a) The lingual ribbon, or odontophore, of a mollusk. (b) The proboscis of a moth or a butterfly. (c) The lingua of an insect. [ 1913 Webster ]

9. (Zool.) Any small sole. [ 1913 Webster ]

10. That which is considered as resembing an animal's tongue, in position or form. Specifically: -- [ 1913 Webster ]

(a) A projection, or slender appendage or fixture; as, the tongue of a buckle, or of a balance. [ 1913 Webster ]

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(b) A projection on the side, as of a board, which fits into a groove. [ 1913 Webster ]

(c) A point, or long, narrow strip of land, projecting from the mainland into a sea or a lake. [ 1913 Webster ]

(d) The pole of a vehicle; especially, the pole of an ox cart, to the end of which the oxen are yoked. [ 1913 Webster ]

(e) The clapper of a bell. [ 1913 Webster ]

(f) (Naut.) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

(g) (Mus.) Same as Reed, n., 5. [ 1913 Webster ]

To hold the tongue, to be silent. --
Tongue bone (Anat.), the hyoid bone. --
Tongue grafting. See under Grafting. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Language; speech; expression. See Language. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Tongued p. pr. & vb. n. Tonguing. ] 1. To speak; to utter. “Such stuff as madmen tongue.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To chide; to scold. [ 1913 Webster ]

How might she tongue me. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Mus.) To modulate or modify with the tongue, as notes, in playing the flute and some other wind instruments. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To join means of a tongue and grove; as, to tongue boards together. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To talk; to prate. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mus.) To use the tongue in forming the notes, as in playing the flute and some other wind instruments. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The wryneck.[ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having a tongue. [ 1913 Webster ]

Tongued like the night crow. Donne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) A flounder (Symphurus plagiusa) native of the southern coast of the United States. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Having no tongue. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence, speechless; mute. “What tongueless blocks were they! would they not speak?” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Unnamed; not spoken of. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

One good deed dying tongueless. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A little tongue. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A great talker. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Shaped like a tongue; specifically (Bot.), linear or oblong, and fleshy, blunt at the end, and convex beneath; as, a tongue-shaped leaf. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Any species of Lingula. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who uses his tongue; a talker; a story-teller; a gossip. [ Poetic. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Step by step we rose to greatness; through the tonguesters we may fall. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Med.) Impeded motion of the tongue because of the shortness of the fraenum, or of the adhesion of its margins to the gums. Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To deprive of speech or the power of speech, or of distinct articulation. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Destitute of the power of distinct articulation; having an impediment in the speech, esp. when caused by a short fraenum. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Unable to speak freely, from whatever cause. [ 1913 Webster ]

Love, therefore, and tongue-tied simplicity. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) Any species of Linguatulina. [ 1913 Webster ]

vb. n. (Music) Modification of tone for a rapid staccato effect by the performer's tongue, in playing a wind instrument, as a flute. In single tonguing only one kind of stroke is used, the tongue articulating a rapid “t;” in double tonguing, two strokes, as for “t” and “k, ” are alternated; in triple tonguing, “t, k, t, ” etc. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. Ready or voluble in speaking; as, a tonguy speaker. [ Written also tonguey. ] [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having a powerful, far-reaching voice or speech. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Double-tongued; deceitful. Sandys. [ 1913 Webster ]