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noun. The fleshy, movable, muscular organ, attached in most vertebrates to the floor of the mouth, that is the principal organ of taste, an aid in chewing and swallowing, and, in humans, an important organ of speech.

noun. An analogous organ or part in invertebrate animals, as in certain insects or mollusks.

noun. The tongue of an animal, such as a cow, used as food.

noun. A spoken language or dialect.

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noun. Speech; talk.

noun. The act or power of speaking.

noun. Speech or vocal sounds produced in a state of religious ecstasy.

noun. Style or quality of utterance.

noun. The bark or baying of a hunting dog that sees game.

noun. Something resembling a tongue in shape or function, as.

noun. The vibrating end of a reed in a wind instrument.

noun. A flame.

noun. The flap of material under the laces or buckles of a shoe.

noun. A spit of land; a promontory.

noun. A bell clapper.

noun. The harnessing pole attached to the front axle of a horse-drawn vehicle.

noun. A protruding strip along the edge of a board that fits into a matching groove on the edge of another board.

intransitive verb. To separate or articulate (notes played on a brass or wind instrument) by shutting off the stream of air with the tongue.

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intransitive verb. To touch or lick with the tongue.

intransitive verb. To give (someone) a French-kiss.

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intransitive verb. To provide (a board) with a tongue.

intransitive verb. To join by means of a tongue and groove.

intransitive verb. To scold.

intransitive verb. To articulate notes on a brass or wind instrument.

intransitive verb. To project.

idiom. (have/speak with) To speak deceitfully; prevaricate or lie.

idiom. (bite/hold) To be or keep silent.

idiom. (loosen (someone's) tongue) To cause (someone) to speak freely or carelessly or to divulge information.

idiom. (lose (one's) tongue) To lose the capacity to speak, as from shock.

idiom. (on the tip of (one's) tongue) On the verge of being recalled or expressed.

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To chide; scold; reproach.

To speak; utter.

In playing on musical wind-instruments, to modify or interrupt the tone of by means of a stroke of the tongue, so as to produce a marcato or staccato effect, as in the flute, the cornet, etc. See tonguing. Also tip.

To join or fit together by means of a tongue and groove. See the phrase.

To talk; prate: with indefinite it.

In music, to use the tongue for the purpose of modifying sounds in playing the flute and some other wind-instruments.

To run out; project: as, a point of land tongues out into the sea.

noun. The principal organ of the special sense of taste or the gustatory faculty; the lingual apparatus, or lingua.

noun. Specifically, in cookery, a beef's tongue prepared for the table: as, smoked tongue.

noun. In conchology, the lingual ribbon, or odontophore, bearing the radula, or rasping surface. a structure highly characteristic of those mollusks which have heads, as gastropods. See the technical names (with cuts under radula and ribbon).

noun. In entomology, some mouth-part or conformation of mouth-parts serving as a tongue or suggesting one; a proboscis; a haustellum; an antlia: as, the long spirally rolled tongue of a butterfly or moth; specifically, the central lobe of the ligula of a mandibulate insect. See the technical words, and cut under haustellum.

noun. In various figurative uses, the faculty or mode of speech; speech.

noun. The act or habit of speaking; utterance; discourse; sometimes, fluency of speech; talk.

noun. The manner of speaking as regards sound; voice; tone; specifically, in sporting language, the voice of a hound or other dog: as, to give tongue.