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The power of articulate utterance; speech. Parrots imitating human tongue. Dryden.

A great talker. [Obs.]

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

Any species of Lingula.

Impeded motion of the tongue because of the shortness of the frænum, or of the adhesion of its margins to the gums. Dunglison.

Unable to speak freely, from whatever cause. Love, therefore, and tongue-tied simplicity. Shak.

The wryneck. [Prov. Eng.]

Having a tongue. Tongued like the night crow. Donne.

A flounder (Symphurus plagiusa) native of the southern coast of the United States.

Having no tongue.

A little tongue.

One who uses his tongue; a talker; a story-teller; a gossip. [Poetic.] Step by step we rose to greatness; through the tonguesters we may fall. Tennyson.

Any species of Linguatulina.

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

Of or relating to tones or sounds; specifically (Phon.), applied to, or distingshing, a speech sound made with tone unmixed and undimmed by obstruction, such sounds, namely, the vowels and diphthongs, being so called by Dr. James Rush (1833) " from their forming the purest and most plastic material of intonation."…

Tonic. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

The state of healty tension or partial contraction of muscle fibers while at rest; tone; tonus.

On this present or coming night.

An explosive compound; a preparation of gun cotton.

ell, and is employed in the scenting of snuff. Called also tiononquin bean. [Written also tonca bean, tonga bean.]