TONGUE
\tˈʌŋ], \tˈʌŋ], \t_ˈʌ_ŋ]\
Definitions of TONGUE
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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Lingua, the muscular structure in the mouth, attached to its floor; it is the organ of taste, an accessory organ of speech, and turns the food in the mouth, insalivating it, and passing it backward into the pharynx.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
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Muscular organ in the mouth used in speech and tasting; speech; language; anything like a tongue; point of land.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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The organ of taste in animals, and more especially of speech in man; speech; power of utterance; fluency of speech; mode of speaking a language; word or words; a people or nation; a point, as of a buckle; a projecting point of land; the taper part of anything.
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To chide; to scold; to modify, as sound of a flute, with the tongue.
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To talk; to prate; to use the tongue in modifying sounds. To hold the tongue, to be silent.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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The chief instr. of speech, and the organ of taste; speech; discourse; power of speech; a language; anything resembling a tongue in its shaps, use, or situation; the projection on the end of side of a board which fits into a groove; the clapper of a bell.
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To chide; to scold; to talk or prate much.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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An organ on the floor of the mouth, usually movable and protrusible ; any tongue-like structure, as a radula, a ligula.
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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A muscular mass attached to the floor of the mouth and susceptible of protrusion from that cavity. It takes part in sucking, mastication, and articular speech, and the mucous membrane covering its upper surface is the seat of the organs of taste.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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n. [Anglo-Saxon, Icelandic, Gothic, Latin] A muscular organ attached by one end to the floor of the mouth, serving as the instrument of taste, and in man of articulation also ;-hence, speech; discourse; sometimes, fluency of speech;-a language; -words or declarations only;-a nation, as distinguished by language ;-a point ; a projection ; catch of a buckle; point of a balance;-a narrow strip, as of Iand stretching into the sea or a lake;-any tapering part or point.
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