Word Meanings - ELINGUID - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Tongue-tied; dumb.

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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.
• TONGUEFISH
  A flounder native of the southern coast of the United States.
• 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
• 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.
• HONEY-TONGUED
  Sweet speaking; persuasive; seductive. Shak.
• SHRILL-TONGUED
  Having a shrill voice. "When shrill-tongued Fulvia scolds." Shak.
• 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.
• PLEASANT-TONGUED
  Of pleasing speech.
• TRUMPET-TONGUED
  Having a powerful, far-reaching voice or speech.
• TWO-TONGUED
  Double-tongued; deceitful. Sandys.
• DOUBLE-TONGUED
  Making contrary declarations on the same subject; deceitful. Likewise must the deacons be grave, not double-tongued. 1 Tim. iii.
• SPLIT-TONGUED
  Having a forked tongue, as that of snakes and some lizards.
• DEER'S-TONGUE
  A plant whose fleshy leaves give out a fragrance compared to vanilla. Wood.
• EARTH-TONGUE
  A fungus of the genus Geoglossum.
• DOG'S-TONGUE
  Hound's-tongue.