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se; to convict of, or charge with, falsehood. Their trembling hearts belie their boastful tongues. Dryden.

vessel, usually shaped somewhat like a cup with a flaring mouth, containing a clapper or tongue, and giving forth a ringing sound on being struck.

prudence would conceal; to reveal unintentionally. Be swift to hear, but cautious of your tongue, lest you betray your ignorance. T. Watts.

Having two tongues, or speaking two languages. [Obs.]

gned to provoke a quarrel; to defy. "Do you bite your thumb at us " Shak. -- To bite the tongue, to keep silence. Shak.

A bladder growing on the root of the tongue of a horse, against the windpipe, and stopping the breath.

ature. "Blasphemous publications." Porteus. Nor from the Holy One of Heaven Refrained his tongue blasphemous. Milton.

description; record. Obtrude the blazon of their exploits upon the company. Collier. Thy tongue, thy face, thy limbs, actions, and spirit, Do give thee fivefold blazon. Shak.

To be affected with a blister or blisters; to have a blister form on. Let my tongue blister. Shak.

A boaster. O, I could play the woman with mine eyes, And braggart with my tongue. Shak.

An ornament, in various forms, with a tongue, pin, or loop for attaching it to a garment; now worn at the breast by women; a breastpin. Formerly worn by men on the hat. Honor 's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat. B. Jonson.

A device, usually of metal, consisting of a frame with one more movable tongues or catches, used for fastening things together, as parts of dress or harness, by means of a strap passing through the frame and pierced by the tongue.

lant of the genus Anchusa, and especially the A. officinalis, sometimes called alkanet; oxtongue. Small wild bugloss, the Asperugo procumbens and the Lycopsis arvensis. -- Viper's bugloss, a species of Echium.

ter r, produced by trilling the extremity of the soft palate against the back part of the tongue; rotacism; -- often called the Newcastle, Northumberland, or Tweedside, burr.

One who cabals. A close caballer and tongue-valiant lord. Dryden.

Same as Callet. [Obs.] A callat of boundless tongue. Shak.

To perform the canary dance; to move nimbly; to caper. [Obs.] But to jig of a tune at the tongue's end, canary to it with your feet. Shak. CANARY BIRD Ca*na"ry bird`. (Zoöl.)

Figuratively; Honeyed; sweet; flattering. Let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp. Shak.

neral. Cautious feeling for another's pain. Byron. Be swift to hear; but cautious of your tongue. Watts.

Of or pertaining to the Celts; as, Celtic people, tribes, literature, tongue. [Written also Keltic.]