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Tongue :: Tongue (n.) Discourse; fluency of speech or expression.

Free-tongued :: Free-tongued (a.) Speaking without reserve.

Tongue :: Tongue (n.) The lingual ribbon, or odontophore, of a mollusk..

Adder's-tongue :: Adder's-tongue (n.) The yellow dogtooth violet.

Stylograph :: Styloglossal (a.) Of or pertaining to styloid process and the tongue.

Dialect :: Dialect (n.) Means or mode of expressing thoughts; language; tongue; form of speech.

Sordes :: Sordes (n.) Foul matter; excretion; dregs; filthy, useless, or rejected matter of any kind; specifically (Med.), the foul matter that collects on the teeth and tongue in low fevers and other conditions attended with great vital depression..

Hart-tongue :: Hart-tongue (n.) A West Indian fern, the Polypodium Phyllitidis of Linnaeus. It is also found in Florida..

Swallowtail :: Swallowtail (n.) A kind of tenon or tongue used in making joints. See Dovetail.

Bell :: Bell (n.) A hollow metallic vessel, usually shaped somewhat like a cup with a flaring mouth, containing a clapper or tongue, and giving forth a ringing sound on being struck..

Mid :: Mid (superl.) Made with a somewhat elevated position of some certain part of the tongue, in relation to the palate; midway between the high and the low; -- said of certain vowel sounds; as, a (ale), / (/ll), / (/ld). See Guide to Pronunciation, // 10, 11..

Fourchette :: Fourchette (n.) An instrument used to raise and support the tongue during the cutting of the fraenum.

Raphe :: Raphe (n.) A line, ridge, furrow, or band of fibers, especially in the median line; as, the raphe of the tongue..

Bugloss :: Bugloss (n.) A plant of the genus Anchusa, and especially the A. officinalis, sometimes called alkanet; oxtongue..

Lap :: Lap (v. t.) To take into the mouth with the tongue; to lick up with a quick motion of the tongue.

Tongue :: Tongue (n.) The power of articulate utterance; speech.

Lorikeet :: Lorikeet (n.) Any one numerous species of small brush-tongued parrots or lories, found mostly in Australia, New Guinea and the adjacent islands, with some forms in the East Indies. They are arboreal in their habits and feed largely upon the honey of flowers. They belong to Trichoglossus, Loriculus, and several allied genera..

Tang :: Tang (n.) The tongue of a buckle.

Oxtongue :: Oxtongue (n.) A name given to several plants, from the shape and roughness of their leaves; as, Anchusa officinalis, a kind of bugloss, and Helminthia echioides, both European herbs..

Sublingual :: Sublingual (a.) Situated under the tongue; as, the sublingual gland..

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