Tongue
an organ situated in the floor of the mouth of most vertebrates and connected with the hyoid arch.
The power of articulate utterance; speech.
Discourse; fluency of speech or expression.
Honorable discourse; eulogy.
A language; the whole sum of words used by a particular nation; as, the English tongue.
Speech; words or declarations only; -- opposed to thoughts or actions.
A people having a distinct language.
The lingual ribbon, or odontophore, of a mollusk.
The proboscis of a moth or a butterfly.
The lingua of an insect.
Any small sole.
That which is considered as resembing an animal's tongue, in position or form.
A projection, or slender appendage or fixture; as, the tongue of a buckle, or of a balance.
A projection on the side, as of a board, which fits into a groove.
A point, or long, narrow strip of land, projecting from the mainland into a sea or a lake.
The pole of a vehicle; especially, the pole of an ox cart, to the end of which the oxen are yoked.
The clapper of a bell.
A short piece of rope spliced into the upper part of standing backstays, etc.; also. the upper main piece of a mast composed of several pieces.
Same as Reed, n., 5.
To speak; to utter.
To chide; to scold.
To modulate or modify with the tongue, as notes, in playing the flute and some other wind instruments.
To join means of a tongue and grove; as, to tongue boards together.
To talk; to prate.
To use the tongue in forming the notes, as in playing the flute and some other wind instruments.
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Tongue Quotations
The tongue like a sharp knife... Kills without drawing blood.
Buddha
Give thy thoughts no tongue.
William Shakespeare
When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.
Benjamin Franklin
The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.
Voltaire
You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.
Joel Osteen
The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.
Leonardo da Vinci
Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
Rabindranath Tagore
Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.
Ambrose Bierce
Some men know that a light touch of the tongue, running from a woman's toes to her ears, lingering in the softest way possible in various places in between, given often enough and sincerely enough, would add immeasurably to world peace.
Marianne Williamson
'Twas but my tongue, 'twas not my soul that swore.
Euripides
I hope my tongue in prune juice smothers, If I belittle dogs and mothers.
Ogden Nash
It's going to be the year of the sharp elbow and the quick tongue.
George W. Bush
Every knee will bend before me, and every tongue shall give glory to God.
Jesus Christ
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
Virginia Woolf
A sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener with constant use.
Washington Irving
A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
Washington Irving
Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
Washington Irving
The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use.
Washington Irving
Now I see that going out into the testing ground of men it is the tongue and not the deed that wins the day.
Sophocles
Let your tongue speak what your heart thinks.
Davy Crockett
I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.
Flannery O'Connor
Good copy can't be written with tongue in cheek, written just for a living. You've got to believe in the product.
David Ogilvy
There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart.
Thomas Fuller
If my tongue were trained to measures, I would sing a stirring song.
Paul Tillich
O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it.
Saint Teresa of Avila
I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.
Ellen Glasgow
The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It's inflammatory.
Tennessee Williams
I will speak with a straight tongue.
Chief Joseph
More Tongue Quotations
Tongue Translations
tongue in Afrikaans is taal
tongue in Danish is tunge, sprog
tongue in Dutch is tong
tongue in Finnish is kieli
tongue in French is langage, langue, parole
tongue in German is Zunge, Sprache
tongue in Hungarian is nyelv
tongue in Italian is idioma, lingua
tongue in Latin is lingua
tongue in Spanish is lengua
tongue in Swedish is tunga
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