tongelt

A Middle English form of tong1. = Dan. tunge = Goth. tug go = Ir. Gael. teanga (for* denga ) = OL. dingua, L. lingua (> It. lingua = Sp. lengua = Pg. lingo a, lingua = F. langue ), tongue; perhaps cognate with OBulg. yenzuikú =Bohem. jazykyazuiků, etc., = OPru . insuwis, tongue, and po ibly with Skt. jihvā, Zend juhū, tongue. The Gr. word is entirely different (see glo a). From the L. form of the word are derived E. lingual, etc., language1.] 1. The principal organ of the special sense of taste or the gustatory faculty; the lingual apparatus, or lingua. It is usually a fleshy and freely movable ma which partly fills the mouth, and has important functions in the acts of talking and eating. Together with the lips, teeth, and cheeks, the tongue serves to articulate, modulate, or qualify sounds produced in the windpipe, and in man is thus an organ of speech; it is equally concerned in the many natural cries of animals, the songs of birds, etc. It is a direct aid in the proce of mastication, in directing food between the teeth, and in the act of swallowing or deglutition, by forcing food and drink from the mouth through the fauces into the pharynx. It is concerned in spitting, and in almost every action in which the mouth takes part. The tongue is often a prehensile organ, as for lapping or licking; sometimes a rasp or file, as in the lion and the snail; sometimes a dart or spear, as in woodpeckers, and in chameleons and many other reptiles. The tongue is rarely rudimentary or wanting in vertebrates, as in some birds and the aglo al batrachians. It is forked in serpents. Its structure and mechanism are more elaborate in some of the lower vertebrates, especially in birds and reptiles, than in mammals. In these last the tongue is chiefly a ma of muscle attached to the hyoid bone and lower jaw, and covered with mucous membrane. (a) In man the tongue is placed in the floor of the mouth, between the two branches of the lower jaw. The base or root of the tongue is fixed to the hyoid or tongue-bone; the top, sides, and dorsum are free; a median fold of mucous membrane, the bridle of the tongue, or frenum linguæ, runs to its tip. Like other median or azygous structures, the tongue consists of two symmetrical halves on the right and left of a middle vertical partition, or septum linguæ, of fibrous ti ue; another sheet of such ti ue, the hyoglo al membrane, connects the under side of the tongue with the oid bonen The intrinsic muscular fibers of the tongue constitute the lingual is; the extrinsic muscles (connecting E IMG:content-0554.png:[graphic][merged small][subsumed][subsumed][subsumed][subsumed][merged small][merged small][subsumed][subsumed][subsumed][merged small] This our life exempt from public haunt Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks. Shak., As you Like it, ii. 1. 16. (b) The act or habit of speaking; utterance; discourse; sometimes, fluency of speech; talk. Shak., T. of the S., Ind., i. 114. Burns , Death of Sir J. H. Blair. The tongue [of the bloodhound should be] loud, long, deep, and melodious. Be of fair beerynge & of good tunge . Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 37. Speak to me home, mince not the general tongue : Name Cleopatra as she is call'd in Rome. Shak ., A. and C., i. 2. 109. (e) The mode or form of expre ion; especially, the sum of the words used by a particular nation; a language. Reuertere is as myche to say In englisch tunge as turne azen. Hymns to Virgin , etc. (E. E. T. S.), p. 92. We must be free or die, who speak the tongue That Shakspeare spake. Words worth, Poems on Independence and Liberty, xvi. (f) Words or declarations only; mere speech or talk, as opposed to thoughts or actions . Let us not love in word, neither in tongue , but in deed 1 John iii. 18. and in truth. (g) A people or race, as distinguished by its language. I will gather all nations and tongues . In turning over those same leaves apace, To shew his skill i' th ' tongues , hee'l nod his head. Times' Whistle (E. E. T. S.), p. 29. What is "pourquoi"? do or not do? I would I had be- stowed that time in the tongues that I have in fencing, dancing, and bear-baiting. Shak., T. N., i. 3. 97. To bite the tongue. See bite. - To find one's tongue, to be able to speak; recover the power of speech. But Priam found the fire ere he his tongue . Shak., 2 Hen. IV., i. 1. 74. To give tongue. See givel . - To hold one's tongue. See hold 1.- To keep one's tonguet, to be silent. When Biondello comes, he waits on thee; But I will charm him first to keep his tongue. (ht) Mention; fame; eulogy. She was born noble; let that title find her a private = Syn. 5 (e). Tongue is the Anglo-Saxon equivalent for grave, but neither tongue nor honour. Beau , and Fl. (i) A vote; a voice. [Rare.] Of [on?] him that did not ask, but mock, [do you) bestow Your sued-for tongues ? Shak., Cor., ii. 8. 216. 6. Anything considered to resemble an ani- mal's tongue in shape, position, or function. tongue (tung), v.; pret. and pp. tongued , ppr. tonguing. [ tongue , n.] I. trans. 1. To chide; scold; reproach. I'll listen to the common censure now, How the world tongues me when my ear lies low. Middle ton , Michael mas Term, iv. 4. 'Tis still a dream, or else such stuff as madmen Tongue and brain not. Shak ., Cymbeline, v. 4. 147. No stone is fitted in yon marble girth Whose echo shall not tongue thy glorious doom. This is known as the North Deposit, and is separated by 2. To speak; utter. a tongue of barren dolomite from another ore-bearing por- tion. Ure, Dict., IV. 1004. Columns with richly carved capitals, and, like so many columns of all ages in this region, with tongues of foliage at their bases. E. A. Freeman , Venice, p. 207. Especially-( a ) A long narrow strip of land running out into a sea or lake; also, a gulf or outstretched bay (Isa. xi. 15). (b) A tapering jet of flame. (c) The pin or tang of a buckle or brooch which pierces the strap, ribbon, or object to be fastened. (d) The short movable rail of a switch by which the wheels are directed to one or the other line of rails. (e) The pole of a carriage, car, or other vehicle, to which the horses are fastened. (f) A projecting strip worked on the edge of a board, used to form a joint by fitting into a corresponding groove in another board. ( g ) The pointer or pin of a balance. See cut under balance . (ht) Naut ., a short piece of rope spliced into the upper part of standing backstays to form an eye; also, the upper piece of a built mast. (2) The vibratile reed of a musical instrument of the reed group, particularly if made of metal, as in the harmonium, the concertina, etc. Compare cuts under reed . (j) The clapper of a bell. ( k ) That part of the blade of a sword on which the grip, shell, and pommel are fixed. (1) A narrow strip of leather or kid, over which the uppers or sides of a boot or shoe are laced together. (m) A young or small sole. Compare tongue - fish . Hall i well . [Prov. Eng.] The average weight of the fish has diminished. Young specimens form the majority of the soles in the market, and are sold under the names of "slips" or " tongues ." Encyc . Brit ., XXII. 249. (n) The sting of a bee. Hall i well . [Prov. Eng.] (0) The movable arm of a bevel, the principal member being the stock, which forms the case when the instrument is closed. E. H. Knight. See cut under bevel . ( p ) A current of water, narrow, deep, and smooth, running rapidly between rocks without breaking or twisting; a sled-run. A tongue is well-known to anglers as a favorite resting-place of sal- mon in their laborious ascent of rapid streams. 7. One of the seven (later eight) divisions or "nations" composing the order of the Hospi- talers; also, a meeting of a division. A long tongue. See long1 . - A tongue too long for one's teeth, an over ready or indiscreet tongue. [Colloq.] Hum! Eve, wasn't your tongue a little too long for your teeth just now? Č. Reade, Love me Little, x. Auld wives' tongues. See auld . - Black tongue. (a) fading later into brown, of the filiform papillæ of the An affection characterized by a discoloration, at first black, tongue. Also called nigritis linguæ . (b) A fever which prevailed in the western United States in the winter of 1842-3. Dunglison . (c) An inflammation of the tongue occurring in some forms of epidemic erysipelas. - Con- tongue-bang (tung bang), v. t. To scold heart- ily. Hall i well . [Prov. Eng.] tongue-banger (tung'banger), n. A scold. That Sally she turn'd a tongue - banger , an' räated ma. Tennyson, Northern Cobbler. tongue-battery (tung'bat"ėr-i), n. Urgent and pre ing talk; a flood of words. [Rare.] With blandish'd parlies, feminine a aults, Tongue - batteries , she surceased not, day nor night, To storm me. Milton , S. A., 1. 404. The long-tongue a confusion of speech inflicted on the builders of the tower of Babel, resulting in their dispersion: generally regarded as the first occasion of a difference of languages. - Double- tongue. See Ruscus. - Egg and tongue. See eggl. Excision of the tongue. See Cha aignac's , Jacque's , Nunneley's, Regnoli's, Roux's, and Whitehead's operations for excision of the tongue , under operation . Gift of tongues. See gift . - Liguliform tongue. See liguli- form. - Mother tongue. See mother - tongue . - On (or at) the tip (or end) of one's tongue, on the point or verge of utterance. God forgive me, but I had a sad lie at my tongue's end. Richardson , Pamela, I. 169. It was on the tip of the boy's tongue to relate what had followed; but... he checked himself. Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit, xxix. See raphe . - Strawberry Raphe of the tongue. tongue. See strawberry. The tongue of the trump, the tongue of a jews'-harp; hence, the most important person or thing. [Scotch.] An' there will be black-lippit Johnnie, The tongue o' the trump to them a'. The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century dictionary tongued