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Linen goods collectively; linen underwear, esp. of women; the clothing of linen and cotton with its lace, etc., worn by a women.

Drawn out in time; remaining long; protracted; as, a lingering disease. To die is the fate of man; but to die with lingering anguish is generally his folly. Rambler.

With delay; slowly; tediously.

An ingot. [Written also lingot.]

mode of treating certain diseases, as obesity, by gymnastics; -- proposed by Pehr Henrik Ling, a Swede. See Kinesiatrics.

See Lingel.

Language; speech; dialect. [Slang]

. Amboyna wood.

A linget or ingot; also, a mold for casting metals. See Linget.

A tongue.

The commercial language of the Levant, -- a mixture of the language of the people of the region and foreign traders.

Given to the use of the tongue; loquacious. [Obs.]

of the tongue and teeth, or rather that part of the gum just above the front teeth; dentolingual, as the letters d and t.

Of or pertaining to the tongue; uttered by the aid of the tongue; glossal; as, the lingual nerves; a lingual letter. Lingual ribbon. (Zoöl.) See Odontophore.

The quality of being lingual.

Same as Linguatulina.

An order of wormlike, degraded, parasitic arachnids. They have two pairs of retractile hooks, near the mouth. Called also Pentastomida.

Linguadental.

Having the form of the tongue; tongue-shaped.

A master of the use of language; a talker. [Obs.] I'll dispute with him; He's a rare linguist. J. Webster.