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A particular language, as distinct from others; a tongue; a dialect. People of a strange speech and of an hard language. Ezek. iii. 6.

Some part of the articulating organs, as the lips, or the tongue and palate, closed (a) so as to cut off the passage of breath or voice through the mouth and the nose (distinguished as a lip-stop, or a front-stop, etc., as in p, t, d, etc.), or (b) so as to obstruct, but not entirely cut off, the passage, as in l, n, e…

In the United States, applied to planking or flooring put together without the tongue and groove, the pieces being laid edge to edge.

of the strange queen's lords. Shak. I do not contemn the knowledge of strange and divers tongues. Ascham.

A nerve or tendon of an animal body. The string of his tongue was loosed. Mark vii. 35.

Having no strings. His tongue is now a stringless instrument. Shak.

Of or pertaining to styloid process and the tongue.

Situated under the tongue; sublingual.

A process or fold below the tongue in some animals.

Situated under the tongue; as, the sublingual gland.

To draw, as a liquid, by the action of the mouth and tongue, which tends to produce a vacuum, and causes the liquid to rush in by atmospheric pressure; to draw, or apply force to, by exhausting the air.

al to the end proposed; to be adequate. Chaucer. To recount almighty works, What words or tongue of seraph can suffice Milton.

ever so much care the dirt thrown at us, there will be left some sulliage behind. Gov. of Tongue.

Having a limber tongue. [R.] "A supple-chapped flatterer." Marston.

A kind of tenon or tongue used in making joints. See Dovetail.

an organ; sweet music; a sweet voice; a sweet singer. To make his English sweet upon his tongue. Chaucer. A voice sweet, tremulous, but powerful. Hawthorne.

an marsupial (Tarsipes rostratus) about the size of a mouse. It has a long muzzle, a long tongue, and very few teeth, and feeds upon honey and insects. Called also noolbenger.

by means of which it is secured to a handle, or to some other part; anything resembling a tongue in form or position. Specifically: --

To try by the touch of the tongue; to perceive the relish or flavor of (anything) by taking a small quantity into a mouth. Also used figuratively. When the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine. John ii. 9. When Commodus had once tasted human blood, he became incapable of pity or remorse. Gibbon.…

A slight sound such as that made by pressing the tongue against the roof of the mouth and explosively sucking out the air at one side, as in urging on a horse. -- v. i.