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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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365 words match “TONGUE”

TONGUE n. 23 definitions

The power of articulate utterance; speech. Parrots imitating human tongue. Dryden.

A great talker. [Obs.]

TONGUE-SHAPED a.

Shaped like a tongue; specifically (Bot.), linear or oblong, and fleshy, blunt at the end, and convex beneath; as, a tongue-shaped leaf.

TONGUE-SHELL n.

Any species of Lingula.

TONGUE-TIE n. 2 definitions

Impeded motion of the tongue because of the shortness of the frænum, or of the adhesion of its margins to the gums. Dunglison.

TONGUE-TIED a. 2 definitions

Unable to speak freely, from whatever cause. Love, therefore, and tongue-tied simplicity. Shak.

The wryneck. [Prov. Eng.]

Having a tongue. Tongued like the night crow. Donne.

A flounder (Symphurus plagiusa) native of the southern coast of the United States.

TONGUELESS a. 3 definitions

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.

ADDER'S-TONGUE n. 2 definitions

genus of ferns (Ophioglossum), whose seeds are produced on a spike resembling a serpent's tongue.

To attack with the tongue; to abuse; to insult.

BIRD'S-TONGUE n.

The knotgrass (Polygonum aviculare).

CLOSE-TONGUED a.

Closemouthed; silent. "Close-tongued treason." Shak.

DEER'S-TONGUE n.

A plant (Liatris odoratissima) whose fleshy leaves give out a fragrance compared to vanilla. Wood.

DOG'S-TONGUE n.

Hound's-tongue.

DOUBLE-TONGUE n.

Deceit; duplicity. Now cometh the sin of double-tongue, such as speak fair before folk and wickedly behind. Chaucer.