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Opening into two or more parts or shoots; forked; furcated. "Forky tongues." Pope.

An instrument used to raise and support the tongue during the cutting of the frænum.

onnecting fold of membrane serving to support or restrain any part; as, the frænum of the tongue.

d by,, founded on, or proceeding from, fraund; as, a fraudulent bargain. He, with serpent tongue, . . . His fraudulent temptation thus began. Milton.

the eyes; sometimes, also, the whole face. Bless'd with his father's front, his mother's tongue. Pope. Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled front. Shak. His front yet threatens, and his frowns command. Prior.

, of the cranium. Frontal hammer or helve, a forge hammer lifted by a cam, acting upon a "tongue" immediately in front of the hammer head. Raymond.

- Full cry (Hunting), eager chase; -- said of hounds that have caught the scent, and give tongue together. -- Full dress, the dress prescribed by authority or by etiquette to be worn on occasions of ceremony. -- Full hand (Poker), three of a kind and a pair. -- Full moon. (a) The moon with its whole disk illuminated…

Fungiform papillæ (Anat.), numerous small, rounded eminences on the upper surface of the tongue.

A coat of morbid matter collected on the tongue in persons affected with fever.

The jaws between which the hinder end of a carriage tongue is inserted. Knight.

a gadding passion, and walketh the streets. Bacon. The good nuns would check her gadding tongue. Tennyson. Gadding car, in quarrying, a car which carries a drilling machine so arranged as to drill a line of holes.

e compliment appropriate to the hour, as "good morning." "good evening", etc. -- To give tongue, in hunter's phrase, to bark; -- said of dogs. -- To give up. (a) To abandon; to surrender. "Don't give up the ship." He has . . . given up For certain drops of salt, your city Rome. Shak.

Speaking or spoken smoothly and with flippant rapidity; fluent; voluble; as, a glib tongue; a glib speech. I want that glib and oily art, To speak and purpose not. Shak.

The tongue, or lingua, of an insect. See Hymenoptera.

Of or pertaining to the tongue; lingual.

A disease of horses and cattle accompanied by carbuncles in the mouth and on the tongue.

Inflammation of the tongue.

Pertaining to both tongue and epiglottis; as, glossoepiglottic folds.

Pertaining to both the hyoidean arch and the tongue; -- applied to the anterior segment of the hyoidean arch in many fishes. -- n. The glossohyal bone or cartilage; lingual bone; entoglossal bone.

The gift of tongues. Farrar.