Tongue
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.
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Tongue Quotations
The tongue like a sharp knife... Kills without drawing blood.
Buddha
When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.
Benjamin Franklin
Give thy thoughts no tongue.
William Shakespeare
The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.
Voltaire
You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.
Joel Osteen
The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.
Leonardo da Vinci
Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
Rabindranath Tagore
I hope my tongue in prune juice smothers, If I belittle dogs and mothers.
Ogden Nash
Tongue Translations
tongue in Afrikaans is taal
tongue in Danish is tunge, sprog
tongue in Dutch is tong
tongue in Finnish is kieli
tongue in French is langage, langue, parole
tongue in German is Zunge, Sprache
tongue in Hungarian is nyelv
tongue in Italian is idioma, lingua
tongue in Latin is lingua
tongue in Spanish is lengua
tongue in Swedish is tunga
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