(n.) an organ situated in the floor of the mouth of most
vertebrates and connected with the hyoid arch.
(n.) The power of articulate utterance; speech.
(n.) Discourse; fluency of speech or expression.
(n.) Honorable discourse; eulogy.
(n.) A language; the whole sum of words used by a particular
nation; as, the English tongue.
(n.) Speech; words or declarations only; -- opposed to thoughts
or actions.
(n.) A people having a distinct language.
(n.) The lingual ribbon, or odontophore, of a mollusk.
(n.) The proboscis of a moth or a butterfly.
(n.) The lingua of an insect.
(n.) Any small sole.
(n.) That which is considered as resembing an animal's tongue,
in position or form.
(n.) A projection, or slender appendage or fixture; as, the
tongue of a buckle, or of a balance.
(n.) A projection on the side, as of a board, which fits into a
groove.
(n.) A point, or long, narrow strip of land, projecting from the
mainland into a sea or a lake.
(n.) The pole of a vehicle; especially, the pole of an ox cart,
to the end of which the oxen are yoked.
(n.) The clapper of a bell.
(n.) A short piece of rope spliced into the upper part of
standing backstays, etc.; also. the upper main piece of a mast composed
of several pieces.
(n.) Same as Reed, n., 5.
(v. t.) To speak; to utter.
(v. t.) To chide; to scold.
(v. t.) To modulate or modify with the tongue, as notes, in
playing the flute and some other wind instruments.
(v. t.) To join means of a tongue and grove; as, to tongue
boards together.
(v. i.) To talk; to prate.
(v. i.) To use the tongue in forming the notes, as in playing
the flute and some other wind instruments.
