Word Meanings - DOG'S-TONGUE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Hound's-tongue.

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• TONGUELET
  A little tongue.
• TONGUE-SHELL
  Any species of Lingula.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• HOUNDING
  The part of a mast below the hounds and above the deck. (more info) 1. The act of one who hounds.
• HOUNDFISH
  Any small shark of the genus Galeus or Mustelus, of which there are several species, as the smooth houndfish , of Europe and America; -- called also houndshark, and dogfish. Note: The European nursehound, or small-spotted dogfish, is
• TONGUEFISH
  A flounder native of the southern coast of the United States.
• HOUND'S-TONGUE
  A biennial weed , with soft tongue- shaped leaves, and an offensive odor. It bears nutlets covered with barbed or hooked prickles. Called also dog's-tongue.
• TONGUEWORM
  Any species of Linguatulina.
• TONGUEBIRD
  The wryneck.
• TONGUE-TIE
  Impeded motion of the tongue because of the shortness of the frænum, or of the adhesion of its margins to the gums. Dunglison.
• TONGUE
  an organ situated in the floor of the mouth of most vertebrates and connected with the hyoid arch. Note: The tongue is usually muscular, mobile, and free at one extremity, and in man other mammals is the principal organ of taste, aids
• HOUND
  A variety of the domestic dog, usually having large, drooping ears, esp. one which hunts game by scent, as the foxhound, bloodhound, deerhound, but also used for various breeds of fleet hunting dogs, as the greyhound, boarhound, etc. Hounds and
• TONGUELESS
  1. Having no tongue. 2. Hence, speechless; mute. "What tongueless blocks were they! would they not speak" Shak. 3. Unnamed; not spoken of. One good deed dying tongueless. Shak.
• SERPENT-TONGUED
  Having a forked tongue, like a serpent.
• HELLHOUND
  A dog of hell; an agent of hell. A hellhound, that doth hunt us all to death. Shak.
• HAREHOUND
  See CHALMERS
• HONEY-TONGUED
  Sweet speaking; persuasive; seductive. Shak.
• SHRILL-TONGUED
  Having a shrill voice. "When shrill-tongued Fulvia scolds." Shak.
• SLOTHHOUND
  See SLEUTHHOUND
• FOXHOUND
  One of a special breed of hounds used for chasing foxes.
• 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.
• WOLFHOUND
  Originally, a large hound used in hunting wolves; now, any one of certain breeds of large dogs, some of which are nearly identical with the great Danes.
• SLEUTHHOUND
  A hound that tracks animals by the scent; specifically, a bloodhound.
• GREYHOUND
  A slender, graceful breed of dogs, remarkable for keen sight and swiftness. It is one of the oldest varieties known, and is figured on the Egyptian monuments. (more info) Icel. greyhundr; grey greyhound + hundr dog; cf. AS. grghund. The
• PLEASANT-TONGUED
  Of pleasing speech.
• TRUMPET-TONGUED
  Having a powerful, far-reaching voice or speech.
• STAGHOUND
  A large and powerful hound formerly used in hunting the stag, the wolf, and other large animals. The breed is nearly extinct.
• BUCKHOUND
  A hound for hunting deer. Master of the buckhounds, an officer in the royal household.
• TWO-TONGUED
  Double-tongued; deceitful. Sandys.