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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.]

The cubical content or burden of a vessel, or vessels, in tons; or, the amount of weight which one or several vessels may carry. See Ton, n. (b). A fleet . . . with an aggregate tonnage of 60,000 seemed sufficient to conquer the world. Motley.

A tun. [Obs.] Chaucer.

= Tonne.

The female of the bullfinch; -- called also tonyhoop. [Prov. Eng.]

In the ton; fashionable; modish. -- Ton"nish*ness, n.

An instrument for determining the rate of vibrations in tones.

The act of measuring with a tonometer; specifically (Med.), measurement of tension, esp. the tension of the eyeball.