Tongue

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. an organ situated in the floor of the mouth of most vertebrates and connected with the hyoid arch.

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

3. Discourse; fluency of speech or expression. Much tongue and much judgment seldom go together. L. Estrange.

4. Honorable discourse; eulogy. [Obs.] She was born noble; let that title find her a private grave, but neither tongue nor honor. Beau. & Fl.

5. A language; the whole sum of words used by a particular nation; as, the English tongue. Chaucer. Whose tongue thou shalt not understand. Deut. xxviii. 49. To speak all tongues. Milton.

6. Speech; words or declarations only; -- opposed to thoughts or actions. My little children, let us love in word, neither in tongue, but in deed and in truth. 1 John iii. 18.

7. A people having a distinct language. A will gather all nations and tongues. Isa. lxvi. 18.

8. The lingual ribbon, or odontophore, of a mollusk.

9. The proboscis of a moth or a butterfly.

10. The lingua of an insect.

11. Any small sole.

12. That which is considered as resembing an animal's tongue, in position or form. Specifically: --

13. A projection, or slender appendage or fixture; as, the tongue of a buckle, or of a balance.

14. A projection on the side, as of a board, which fits into a groove.

15. A point, or long, narrow strip of land, projecting from the mainland into a sea or a lake.

16. The pole of a vehicle; especially, the pole of an ox cart, to the end of which the oxen are yoked.

17. The clapper of a bell.

Synonyms: Language; speech; expression. See Language.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

1. To speak; to utter. "Such stuff as madmen tongue." Shak.

2. To chide; to scold. How might she tongue me. Shak .

3. To modulate or modify with the tongue, as notes, in playing the flute and some other wind instruments.

4. To join means of a tongue and grove; as, to tongue boards together.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

1. To talk; to prate. Dryden.

2. To use the tongue in forming the notes, as in playing the flute and some other wind instruments.