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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.

A truce. [Obs.] Spenser.

A discourse or colloquy by three persons.

A wooden trough, forming a drain. Raymond.

Having a powerful, far-reaching voice or speech.

perplexity; trouble; distress. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] This put the old fellow in a rare tweague. Arbuthnot.

Double-tongued; deceitful. Sandys.

Not argued or debated.

Ungual.