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1. Means or mode of expressing thoughts; language; tongue; form of speech. This book is writ in such a dialect As may the minds of listless men affect. Bunyan. The universal dialect of the world. South. 2. The form of speech of a limited region

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1. Means or mode of expressing thoughts; language; tongue; form of speech. This book is writ in such a dialect As may the minds of listless men affect. Bunyan. The universal dialect of the world. South. 2. The form of speech of a limited region or people, as distinguished from ether forms nearly related to it; a variety or subdivision of a language; speech characterized by local peculiarities or specific circumstances; as, the Ionic and Attic were dialects of Greece; the Yorkshire dialect; the dialect of the learned. In the midst of this Babel of dialects there suddenly appeared a standard English language. Earle. could address his subjects from every quarter in their native dialect. Prescott. Syn. -- Language; idiom; tongue; speech; phraseology. See Language, and Idiom.

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  • SPEECHLESS
    1. Destitute or deprived of the faculty of speech. 2. Not speaking for a time; dumb; mute; silent. Speechless with wonder, and half dead with fear. Addison. -- Speech"less*ly, adv. -- Speech"less*ness, n.
  • TONGUELET
    A little tongue.
  • SPEECHIFYING
    The dinner and speechifying . . . at the opening of the annual season for the buckhounds. M. Arnold.
  • TONGUE-SHELL
    Any species of Lingula.
  • SPEECHFUL
    Full of speech or words; voluble; loquacious.
  • VERNACULAR
    Belonging to the country of one's birth; one's own by birth or nature; native; indigenous; -- now used chiefly of language; as, English is our vernacular language. "A vernacular disease." Harvey. His skill the vernacular dialect of the
  • DISCOURSE
    fr. discurrere, discursum, to run to and fro, to discourse; dis- + 1. The power of the mind to reason or infer by running, as it were, from one fact or reason to another, and deriving a conclusion; an exercise or act of this power; reasoning; range
  • DICTION
    Choice of words for the expression of ideas; the construction, disposition, and application of words in discourse, with regard to clearness, accuracy, variety, etc.; mode of expression; language; as, the diction of Chaucer's poems. His
  • SPEECHIFY
    To make a speech; to harangue.
  • TONGUESTER
    One who uses his tongue; a talker; a story-teller; a gossip. Step by step we rose to greatness; through the tonguesters we may fall. Tennyson.
  • DISCOURSER
    1. One who discourse; a narrator; a speaker; an haranguer. In his conversation he was the most clear discourser. Milward. 2. The writer of a treatise or dissertation. Philologers and critical discoursers. Sir T. Browne.
  • DIALECTAL
    Relating to a dialect; dialectical; as, a dialectical variant.
  • TONGUED
    Having a tongue. Tongued like the night crow. Donne.
  • TONGUE-TIED
    1. Destitute of the power of distinct articulation; having an impediment in the speech, esp. when caused by a short frænum. 2. Unable to speak freely, from whatever cause. Love, therefore, and tongue-tied simplicity. Shak.
  • SPEECHIFICATION
    The act of speechifying.
  • TONGUE-PAD
    A great talker.
  • TONGUE-SHAPED
    Shaped like a tongue; specifically , linear or oblong, and fleshy, blunt at the end, and convex beneath; as, a tongue-shaped leaf.
  • EXPRESSIONAL
    Of, or relating to, expression; phraseological; also, vividly representing or suggesting an idea sentiment. Fized. Hall. Ruskin.
  • EXPRESSIONLESS
    Destitute of expression.
  • CONVERSATIONIST
    One who converses much, or who excels in conversation. Byron.
  • SERPENT-TONGUED
    Having a forked tongue, like a serpent.
  • OVERLANGUAGED
    Employing too many words; diffuse. Lowell.
  • ABARTICULATION
    Articulation, usually that kind of articulation which admits of free motion in the joint; diarthrosis. Coxe.
  • HONEY-TONGUED
    Sweet speaking; persuasive; seductive. Shak.
  • SHRILL-TONGUED
    Having a shrill voice. "When shrill-tongued Fulvia scolds." Shak.
  • NONVERNACULAR
    Not vernacular. A nonvernacular expression. Sir W. Hamilton.
  • ADDER'S-TONGUE
    A genus of ferns , whose seeds are produced on a spike resembling a serpent's tongue. The yellow dogtooth violet. Gray.
  • LONG-TONGUE
    The wryneck.
  • INARTICULATION
    Inarticulateness. Chesterfield.
  • PLEASANT-TONGUED
    Of pleasing speech.
  • TRUMPET-TONGUED
    Having a powerful, far-reaching voice or speech.
  • CONTRADICTION
    1. An assertion of the contrary to what has been said or affirmed; denial of the truth of a statement or assertion; contrary declaration; gainsaying. His fair demands Shall be accomplished without contradiction. Shak. 2. Direct opposition

 

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