TONGUE

Definitions

1. 1. an organ situated in the floor of the mouth of most vertebrates and connected with the hyoid arch.
2. 2. The power of articulate utterance; speech. Parrots imitating human tongue. Dryden.
3. 3. Discourse; fluency of speech or expression. Much tongue and much judgment seldom go together. L. Estrange.
4. 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. 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. 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. 7. A people having a distinct language. A will gather all nations and tongues. Isa. lxvi. 18.
8. 8. The lingual ribbon, or odontophore, of a mollusk.
9. 9. The proboscis of a moth or a butterfly.
10. 10. The lingua of an insect.
11. 11. Any small sole.
12. 12. That which is considered as resembing an animal's tongue, in position or form. Specifically: --
13. 13. A projection, or slender appendage or fixture; as, the tongue of a buckle, or of a balance.
14. 14. A projection on the side, as of a board, which fits into a groove.
15. 15. A point, or long, narrow strip of land, projecting from the mainland into a sea or a lake.
16. 16. The pole of a vehicle; especially, the pole of an ox cart, to the end of which the oxen are yoked.
17. 17. The clapper of a bell.