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Supple-jack :: Supple-chapped (a.) Having a limber tongue.

Vermilinguia :: Vermilinguia (n. pl.) A tribe of edentates comprising the South American ant-eaters. The tongue is long, slender, exsertile, and very flexible, whence the name..

Clack :: Clack (n.) To utter words rapidly and continually, or with abruptness; to let the tongue run..

Toot :: Toot (v. i.) To blow or sound a horn; to make similar noise by contact of the tongue with the root of the upper teeth at the beginning and end of the sound; also, to give forth such a sound, as a horn when blown..

Trill :: Trill (n.) A sound, of consonantal character, made with a rapid succession of partial or entire intermissions, by the vibration of some one part of the organs in the mouth -- tongue, uvula, epiglottis, or lip -- against another part; as, the r is a trill in most languages..

Pteroglossal :: Pteroglossal (a.) Having the tongue finely notched along the sides, so as to have a featherlike appearance, as the toucans..

Circumvallate :: Circumvallate (a.) Surrounded by a ridge or elevation; as, the circumvallate papillae, near the base of the tongue..

Tongue :: Tongue (v. t.) To modulate or modify with the tongue, as notes, in playing the flute and some other wind instruments..

Two-tongued :: Two-tongued (a.) Double-tongued; deceitful.

Click :: Click (n.) A kind of articulation used by the natives of Southern Africa, consisting in a sudden withdrawal of the end or some other portion of the tongue from a part of the mouth with which it is in contact, whereby a sharp, clicking sound is produced. The sounds are four in number, and are called cerebral, palatal, dental, and lateral clicks or clucks, the latter being the noise ordinarily used in urging a horse forward..

Trill :: Trill (n.) The action of the organs in producing such sounds; as, to give a trill to the tongue. d.

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..

Clevis :: Clevis (n.) A piece of metal bent in the form of an oxbow, with the two ends perforated to receive a pin, used on the end of the tongue of a plow, wagen, etc., to attach it to a draft chain, whiffletree, etc.; -- called also clavel, clevy..

Neap :: Neap (n.) The tongue or pole of a cart or other vehicle drawn by two animals.

Earth-tongue :: Earth-tongue (n.) A fungus of the genus Geoglossum.

Chromosphere :: Chromosphere (n.) An atmosphere of rare matter, composed principally of incandescent hydrogen gas, surrounding the sun and enveloping the photosphere. Portions of the chromosphere are here and there thrown up into enormous tongues of flame..

Hypoglossal :: Hypoglossal (a.) Under the tongue; -- applied esp., in the higher vertebrates, to the twelfth or last pair of cranial nerves, which are distributed to the base of the tongue..

Barbel :: Barbel (n.) Barbs or paps under the tongued of horses and cattle. See 1st Barb, 3..

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

Clatter :: Clatter (v. i.) To talk fast and noisily; to rattle with the tongue.

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