noun any small sole.
2. tongue ·noun the clapper of a bell.
3. tongue ·noun ·same·as reed, ·noun, 5.
4. tongue ·noun honorable discourse; eulogy.
5. tongue ·noun a people having a distinct language.
6. tongue ·noun the proboscis of a moth or a butterfly.
7. tongue ·noun the power of articulate utterance; speech.
8. tongue ·noun discourse; fluency of speech or expression.
9. tongue ·noun the lingua of an insect.
10. tongue ·noun the lingual ribbon, or odontophore, of a mollusk.
11. tongue ·vi to talk; to prate.
12. tongue ·vt to chide; to scold.
13. tongue ·vt to speak; to utter.
14. tongue ·noun a projection on the side, as of a board, which fits into a groove.
15. tongue ·vt to join means of a tongue and grove; as, to tongue boards together.
xvi. tongue ·noun speech; words or declarations only;
opposed to thoughts or actions.
xvii. tongue ·noun that which is considered as resembing an animal's tongue, in position or form.
xviii. tongue ·noun a language; the whole sum of words used by a particular nation; as, the english tongue.
xix. tongue ·noun a point, or long, narrow strip of land, projecting from the mainland into a sea or a lake.
xx. tongue ·noun a projection, or slender appendage or fixture; as, the tongue of a buckle, or of a balance.
xxi. tongue ·vi to use the tongue in forming the notes, as in playing the flute and some other wind instruments.
xxii. tongue ·noun the pole of a vehicle; especially, the pole of an ox cart, to the end of which the oxen are yoked.
xxiii. tongue ·noun an organ situated in the floor of the mouth of most vertebrates and connected with the hyoid arch.
xxiv. tongue ·vt to modulate or modify with the tongue, as notes, in playing the flute and some other wind instruments.
xxv. tongue ·noun 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.