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

The power of articulate utterance; speech.

Discourse; fluency of speech or expression.

Honorable discourse; eulogy.

A language; the whole sum of words used by a particular nation; as, the English tongue.

Speech; words or declarations only; -- opposed to thoughts or actions.

A people having a distinct language.

The lingual ribbon, or odontophore, of a mollusk.

The proboscis of a moth or a butterfly.

The lingua of an insect.

Any small sole.

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

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

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

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

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

The clapper of a bell.

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.

Same as Reed, n., 5.

To speak; to utter.

To chide; to scold.

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

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

To talk; to prate.

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