1. TONGUE
2. TONGUE -GR'AFTING
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1. an organ situated in the floor of the mouth of most vertebrates and connected with the hyoid arch.
2. The power of articulate utterance; speech.
3. Discourse; fluency of speech or expression.
4. Honorable discourse; eulogy.
5. A language; the whole sum of words used by a particular nation; as, the English tongue.
6. Speech; words or declarations only; -- opposed to thoughts or actions.
7. A people having a distinct language.
10. The lingua of an insect.
11. Any small sole.
12. That which is considered as resembing an animal's tongue, in position or form.
14. A projection on the side, as of a board, which fits into a groove.
15. A point, or long, narrow strip of land, projecting from the mainland into a sea or a lake.
16. The pole of a vehicle; especially, the pole of an ox cart, to the end of which the oxen are yoked.
17. The clapper of a bell.
18. 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.
19. Same as Reed, n., 5.
1. To talk; to prate.
2. To use the tongue in forming the notes, as in playing the flute and some other wind instruments.
1. To speak; to utter.
3. To modulate or modify with the tongue, as notes, in playing the flute and some other wind instruments.
4. To join means of a tongue and grove; as, to tongue boards together.
Tongue
Encyclopedia Britannica
TONGUE. See Anatomy, vol. i. p. 895, and Taste.
9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 23, p. 442
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Tongue
Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary
This word is taken in three different senses. 1. For the material tongue, or organ of speech, James iii, 5. 2. For the tongue or language that is spoken in any country, Deut. xxviii, 49. (See _Language_.) 3. For good or bad discourses, Prov. xii, 18; xvii, 20. Tongue of the sea signifies a gulf. To gnaw the tongue, Rev. xvi, 10, is a token of fury, despair, and torment. The gift of tongues was that which God granted to the apostles and disciples assembled at Jerusalem on the day of pentecost, Acts ii. The tongue of angels, a kind of hyperbole made use of by St. Paul, 1 Cor. xiii, 1.
Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary
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A great talker.
1. TONGUE-SHAPED
2. TUNG'-SHAPED, adjective In botany, a tongue-shaped leaf, is linear and fleshy, blunt at the end, convex underneath, and having usually a cartilaginous border.
To deprive of speech or the power of speech, or of distinct articulation.
Any species of Lingula.
To deprive of speech or the power of speech, or of distinct articulation.
1. TONGUE-TIED
2. TUNG'-TIED, adjective Destitute of the power of distinct articulation; having an impediment in the speech.
3. Unable to speak freely, from whatever cause.
4. Love and tongue-tied simplicity.
1. Destitute of the power of distinct articulation; having an impediment in the speech, esp. when caused by a short fraenum.
2. Unable to speak freely, from whatever cause.
The wryneck.
1. TONGUED
2. TONGUELESS
4. Literally, increasing tension; hence, increasing strength, as tonic power.
5. In medicine, increasing strength, or the tone of the animal system; obviating the effects of debility, and restoring healthy functions.
6. Relating to tones or sounds.
7. Extended. [Not in use.]
8. Tonic spasm, in medicine, a rigid contraction of the muscles without relaxation, as in tetanus, etc.
1. A medicine that increases the tone of the muscular fiber, and gives vigor and action to the system.
2. A medicine which increases the tone or strength of the body.
3. In music, the key-note or principal sound which generates all the rest.
4. In music, a certain degree of tension, or the sound produced by a vocal string in a given degree of tension.
Having a tongue.
A flounder (Symphurus plagiusa) native of the southern coast of the United States.
A little tongue.
One who uses his tongue; a talker; a story-teller; a gossip.
Any species of Linguatulina.
Convexity Roget’s Thesaurus §250
N. convexity, prominence, projection, swelling, gibbosity, bilge, bulge, protuberance, protrusion, camber, cahot, thank-ye-ma'am, swell, intumescence, tumour, tumor, tubercle, tuberosity, excrescence, hump, hunch, bunch, boss, embossment, hub, hubble tooth, knob, elbow, process, apophysis, condyle, bulb, node, nodule, nodosity, tongue, dorsum, bump, clump, sugar loaf, bow, mamelon, molar, belly, corporation|, pot belly, gut, withers, back, shoulder, lip, flange, pimple, zit, wen, wheel, papula, pustule, pock, proud flesh, growth, sarcoma, caruncle, corn, wart, pappiloma, furuncle, polypus, fungus, fungosity, exostosis, bleb, blister, blain, boil, airbubble, blob, papule, verruca, papilla, nipple, teat, tit, titty, boob, knocker, pap, breast, dug, mammilla, proboscis, nose, neb, beak, snout, nozzle, schnoz, peg, button, stud, ridge, rib, jutty, trunnion, snag, cupola, dome, arch, balcony, eaves, pilaster, relief, relievo, cameo, bassorilievo, mezzorilevo, altorivievo, low relief, bas relief, high relief, hill, cape, promontory, mull, forehead, foreland, point of land, mole, jetty, hummock, ledge, spur, naze, ness
V. be prominent, project, bulge, protrude, pout, bouge|, bunch, jut out, stand out, stick out, poke out, stick up, bristle up, start up, cock up, shoot up, swell over, hang over, bend over, beetle, render prominent, raise 307, emboss, chase, belly out
Adj. convex, prominent, protuberant, projecting, bossed, embossed, bossy, nodular, bunchy, clavate, clavated, claviform, hummocky, moutonne, mammiliform, papulous, papilose, hemispheric, bulbous, bowed, arched, bold, bellied, tuberous, tuberculous, tumous, cornute, odontoid, lentiform, lenticular, gibbous, club shaped, hubby, hubbly, knobby, papillose, saddle-shaped, selliform, subclavate, torose, ventricose, verrucose, salient, in relief, raised, repousse, bloated &c, (expanded) 194
Taste Roget’s Thesaurus §390
Language Roget’s Thesaurus §560
N. language, phraseology, speech, tongue, lingo, vernacular, mother tongue, vulgar tongue, native tongue, household words, king's english, queen's english, dialect, confusion of tongues, babel, pasigraphie, pantomime, onomatopoeia, betacism, mimmation, myatism, nunnation, pasigraphy, lexicology, philology, glossology, glottology, linguistics, chrestomathy, paleology, paleography, comparative grammar, literature, letters, polite literature, belles lettres, muses, humanities, literae humaniores, republic of letters, dead languages, classics, genius of language, scholarship
V. express by words
Adj. lingual, linguistic, dialectic, vernacular, current, bilingual, diglot, hexaglot, polyglot, literary
Phr. "syllables govern the world"
Loquacity Roget’s Thesaurus §584
N. loquacity, loquaciousness, talkativeness, garrulity, multiloquence, much speaking, jaw, gabble, jabber, chatter, prate, prattle, cackle, clack, twaddle, twattle, rattle, caquet, caquetterie, blabber, bavardage, bibble-babble, gibble-gabble, small talk, fluency, flippancy, volubility, flowing, tongue, flow of words, flux de bouche, flux de mots, copia verborum, cacoethes loquendi, furor loquendi, verbosity, gift of the gab, talker, chatterer, chatterbox, babbler, rattle, ranter, sermonizer, proser, driveler, blatherskite, gossip, magpie, jay, parrot, poll, babel, moulin a paroles
V. be loquacious, talk glibly, pour forth, patter, prate, palaver, prose, chatter, prattle, clack, jabber, jaw, blather, blatter, blether, rattle, rattle on, twaddle, twattle, babble, gabble, outtalk, talk oneself out of breath, talk oneself hoarse, expatiate, gossip, din in the ears, talk at random, talk nonsense, be hoarse with talking
Adj. loquacious, talkative, garrulous, linguacious|, multiloquous, largiloquent|, chattering, chatty, declamatory, open-mouthed, fluent, voluble, glib, flippant, long tongued, long winded
Adv. trippingly on the tongue, glibly, off the reel
Phr. the tongue running fast, the tongue running loose, the tongue running on wheels, all talk and no cider, "foul whisperings are abroad", "what a spendthrift is he of his tongue!"
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207 KJV and 139 BSB verses contain “tongue” — showing the first 20. Show all 215 verses (searchable)
By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.
From these, the maritime peoples separated into their territories, according to their languages, by clans within their nations.
And Moses said unto the LORD, O my Lord, I am not eloquent, neither heretofore, nor since thou hast spoken unto thy servant: but I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue.
But against any of the children of Israel shall not a dog move his tongue, against man or beast: that ye may know how that the LORD doth put a difference between the Egyptians and Israel.
But among all the Israelites, not even a dog will snarl at man or beast.’ Then you will know that the LORD makes a distinction between Egypt and Israel.
The LORD shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand;
And all the people returned to the camp to Joshua at Makkedah in peace: none moved his tongue against any of the children of Israel.
The whole army returned safely to Joshua in the camp at Makkedah, and no one dared to utter a word against the Israelites.
So he brought down the people unto the water: and the LORD said unto Gideon, Every one that lappeth of the water with his tongue, as a dog lappeth, him shalt thou set by himself; likewise every one that boweth down upon his knees to drink.
The Spirit of the LORD spake by me, and his word was in my tongue.
The Spirit of the LORD spoke through me; His word was on my tongue.
And in the days of Artaxerxes wrote Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of their companions, unto Artaxerxes king of Persia; and the writing of the letter was written in the Syrian tongue, and interpreted in the Syrian tongue.
And in the days of Artaxerxes king of Persia, Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of his associates wrote a letter to Artaxerxes. It was written in Aramaic and then translated.
For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my tongue, although the enemy could not countervail the king’s damage.
For my people and I have been sold out to destruction, death, and annihilation. If we had merely been sold as menservants and maidservants, I would have remained silent, because no such distress would justify burdening the king.”
Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue;
Though evil is sweet in his mouth and he conceals it under his tongue,