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Word Meanings - TONGUE-TIE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Impeded motion of the tongue because of the shortness of the frænum, or of the adhesion of its margins to the gums. Dunglison.

Related words: (words related to TONGUE-TIE)

  • MOTIONER
    One who makes a motion; a mover. Udall.
  • MOTIONIST
    A mover.
  • TONGUELET
    A little tongue.
  • TONGUE-SHELL
    Any species of Lingula.
  • IMPEDE
    To hinder; to stop in progress; to obstruct; as, to impede the advance of troops. Whatever hinders or impedes The action of the nobler will. Logfellow.
  • 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.
  • MOTION PICTURE
    A moving picture.
  • 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.
  • MOTIONLESS
    Without motion; being at rest.
  • IMPEDIMENT
    That which impedes or hinders progress, motion, activity, or effect. Thus far into the bowels of the land Have we marched on without impediment. Shak. Impediment in speech, a defect which prevents distinct utterance. Syn. -- Hindrance; obstruction;
  • TONGUE-PAD
    A great talker.
  • MOTION
    An application made to a court or judge orally in open court. Its object is to obtain an order or rule directing some act to be done in favor of the applicant. Mozley & W. (more info) 1. The act, process, or state of changing place or position;
  • TONGUE-SHAPED
    Shaped like a tongue; specifically , linear or oblong, and fleshy, blunt at the end, and convex beneath; as, a tongue-shaped leaf.
  • IMPEDITE
    Hindered; obstructed. Jer. Taylor.
  • IMPEDIMENTAL
    Of the nature of an impediment; hindering; obstructing; impeditive. Things so impediental to success. G. H. Lewes.
  • IMPEDITIVE
    Causing hindrance; impeding. "Cumbersome, and impeditive of motion." Bp. Hall.
  • TONGUEFISH
    A flounder native of the southern coast of the United States.
  • IMPEDIMENTA
    Things which impede or hinder progress; incumbrances; baggage; specif. ,
  • BECAUSE
    1. By or for the cause that; on this account that; for the reason that. Milton. 2. In order that; that. And the multitude rebuked them because they should hold their peace. Matt. xx. 31. Because of, by reason of, on account of. Because of these
  • SERPENT-TONGUED
    Having a forked tongue, like a serpent.
  • EXCITO-MOTION
    Motion excited by reflex nerves. See Excito-motory.
  • NERVIMOTION
    The movement caused in the sensory organs by external agents and transmitted to the muscles by the nerves. Dunglison.
  • 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.
  • IDEO-MOTION
    An ideo-motor movement.
  • PLEASANT-TONGUED
    Of pleasing speech.
  • TRUMPET-TONGUED
    Having a powerful, far-reaching voice or speech.
  • TWO-TONGUED
    Double-tongued; deceitful. Sandys.
  • INADHESION
    Want of adhesion.

 

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