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▸ noun: (countable, uncountable) Such an organ, as taken from animals and used for food (especially from cows).
▸ noun: Any similar organ, such as the lingual ribbon, or odontophore, of a mollusk; the proboscis of a moth or butterfly; or the lingua of an insect.
▸ noun: (metonymically) A language.
▸ noun: (obsolete, synecdochically) The speakers of a language, collectively.
▸ noun: (obsolete) A voice, (the distinctive sound of a person's speech); accent (distinctive manner of pronouncing a language).
▸ noun: A manner of speaking, often habitually.
▸ noun: (synecdochically, usually in the plural) A person speaking in a specified manner.
▸ noun: The power of articulate utterance; speech generally.
▸ noun: (obsolete) Discourse; the fluency of speech or expression.
▸ noun: (obsolete, uncountable) Discourse; fluency of speech or expression.
▸ noun: (obsolete) Honorable discourse; eulogy.
▸ noun: (religion, often in the plural) Glossolalia.
▸ noun: In a shoe, the flap of material that goes between the laces and the foot (so called because it resembles a tongue in the mouth).
▸ noun: Any large or long physical protrusion on an automotive or machine part or any other part that fits into a long groove on another part.
▸ noun: A projection, or slender appendage or fixture.
▸ noun: A long, narrow strip of land, projecting from the mainland into a sea or lake.
▸ noun: The pole of a towed or drawn vehicle or farm implement (e.g., trailer, cart, plow, harrow), by which it is pulled; for example, the pole of an ox cart, to the end of which the oxen are yoked.
▸ noun: The clapper of a bell.
▸ noun: (figuratively) An individual point of flame from a fire.
▸ noun: A small sole (type of fish).
▸ noun: (nautical) 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.
▸ noun: (music) A reed.
▸ noun: (geology) A division of formation; A layer or member of a formation that pinches out in one direction.
▸ verb: (music, transitive, intransitive) On a wind instrument, to articulate a note by starting the air with a tap of the tongue, as though by speaking a 'd' or 't' sound (alveolar plosive).
▸ verb: (slang, vulgar, transitive) To manipulate with the tongue, as in kissing or oral sex; to perform cunnilingus or anilingus on.
▸ verb: To protrude in relatively long, narrow sections.
▸ verb: To join by means of a tongue and groove.
▸ verb: (intransitive, obsolete) To talk; to prate.
▸ verb: (transitive, obsolete) To speak; to utter.
▸ verb: (transitive, obsolete) To chide; to scold.
▸ noun: A village by the Kyle of Tongue in Sutherland, Highland council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NC5956).
▸ noun: A surname.
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