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The dialect, closely akin to French, formerly spoken south of the Loire (in which the word for "yes" was oc); Provencal.

The dialect formerly spoken north of the Loire (in which the word for "yes" was oïl, F. oui).

Tongued; having the tongue visible. Lions . . . represented as armed and langued gules. Cussans.

In a languishing manner; pathetically.

That part of the hilt, in certain kinds of swords, which overlaps the scabbard.

Drooping or flagging from exhaustion; indisposed to exertion; without animation; weak; weary; heavy; dull. " Languid, powerless limbs. " Armstrong. Fire their languid souls with Cato's virtue. Addison.

To become languid or weak; to lose strength or animation; to be or become dull, feeble or spiritless; to pine away; to wither or fade. We . . . do languish of such diseases. 2 Esdras viii. 31. Cease, fond nature, cease thy strife, And let me landguish into life. Pope. For the fields of Heshbon languish. Is. xvi. 8.…

One who languishes.

Becoming languid and weak; pining; losing health and strength.

In a languishing manner.

The state of languishing. " Lingering languishment." Shak.

Languishment. [Obs.]

tate of the body or mind which is caused by exhaustion of strength and characterized by a languid feeling; feebleness; lassitude; laxity.

Producing, or tending to produce, languor; characterized by languor. [Obs. or Poetic] Whom late I left in languorous constraint. Spenser. To wile the length from languorous hours, and draw The sting from pain. Tennyson.

To languish. [Obs.] Chaucer.

One of several species of East Indian and Asiatic fresh-water fishes of the genus Ophiocephalus, remarkable for their power of living out of water, and for their tenacity of life; -- called also walking fishes.

See Lanyard.

Shaped like a laniary, or canine, tooth. Owen.

Lacerating or tearing; as, the laniary canine teeth.

To tear in pieces. [R.]