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Noun, Verb (usu participle), Adjective

HYPHEN

yel=low

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun yellow has 1 sense

yellow(n = noun.attribute) yellowness - yellow color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of sunflowers or ripe lemons;

is a kind of chromatic color, chromatic colour, spectral color, spectral colour

has particulars: canary, canary yellow, amber, gold, brownish yellow, gamboge, lemon, lemon yellow, maize, old gold, orange yellow, saffron, pale yellow, straw, wheat, greenish yellow

Derived forms verb yellow₁, adjective yellow₁

Verb yellow has 1 sense

yellow(v = verb.change) - turn yellow; "The pages of the book began to yellow"

Derived form noun yellow₁

Sample sentence:
Something ----s

Adjective yellow has 6 senses

yellow(s = adj.all) xanthous, yellowish - of the color intermediate between green and orange in the color spectrum; of something resembling the color of an egg yolk;

Derived forms noun yellow₁, noun yellowness₁

yellow(s = adj.all) chicken, chickenhearted, lily-livered, white-livered, yellow-bellied - easily frightened;
yellow(s = adj.all) yellowed - changed to a yellowish color by age; "yellowed parchment"
yellow(s = adj.all) scandalmongering, sensationalistic - typical of tabloids; "sensational journalistic reportage of the scandal"; "yellow press"
yellow(s = adj.all) - cowardly or treacherous; "the little yellow stain of treason"; "too yellow to stand and fight"
yellow(s = adj.all) icteric, jaundiced - affected by jaundice which causes yellowing of skin etc;

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CIDE DICTIONARY

yellow, a. [OE. yelow, yelwe, \'f4elow, \'f4eoluw, from AS. geolu; akin to D. geel, OS. & OHG. gelo, G. gelb, Icel. gulr, Sw. gul, Dan. guul, L. helvus light bay, Gr. chlo`n young verdure, chlwro`s greenish yellow, Skr. hari tawny, yellowish. Chlorine, Gall a bitter liquid, Gold, Yolk.].

Being of a bright saffronlike color; of the color of gold or brass; having the hue of that part of the rainbow, or of the solar spectrum, which is between the orange and the green. [1913 Webster]
"Her yellow hair was browded [braided] in a tress." [1913 Webster]

"A sweaty reaper from his tillage brought
First fruits, the green ear and the yellow sheaf." [1913 Webster]

"The line of yellow light dies fast away." [1913 Webster]
Cowardly; hence, dishonorable; mean; contemptible; as, he has a yellow streak. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Sensational; -- said of some newspapers, their makers, etc.; as, yellow journal, journalism, etc. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

Yellow atrophy (Med.), a fatal affection of the liver, in which it undergoes fatty degeneration, and becomes rapidly smaller and of a deep yellow tinge. The marked symptoms are black vomit, delirium, convulsions, coma, and jaundice. -- Yellow bark, calisaya bark. -- Yellow bass (Zoöl.), a North American fresh-water bass (Morone interrupta) native of the lower parts of the Mississippi and its tributaries. It is yellow, with several more or less broken black stripes or bars. Called also barfish. -- Yellow berry. (Bot.) Same as Persian berry, under Persian. -- Yellow boy, a gold coin, as a guinea. [Slang] Arbuthnot. -- Yellow brier. (Bot.) See under Brier. -- Yellow bugle (Bot.), a European labiate plant (Ajuga Chamæpitys). -- Yellow bunting (Zoöl.), the European yellow-hammer. -- Yellow cat (Zoöl.), a yellow catfish; especially, the bashaw. -- Yellow copperas (Min.), a hydrous sulphate of iron; -- called also copiapite. -- Yellow copper ore, a sulphide of copper and iron; copper pyrites. See Chalcopyrite. -- Yellow cress (Bot.), a yellow-flowered, cruciferous plant (Barbarea præcox), sometimes grown as a salad plant. -- Yellow dock. (Bot.) See the Note under Dock. -- Yellow earth, a yellowish clay, colored by iron, sometimes used as a yellow pigment. -- Yellow fever (Med.), a malignant, contagious, febrile disease of warm climates, attended with jaundice, producing a yellow color of the skin, and with the black vomit. See Black vomit, in the Vocabulary. -- Yellow flag, the quarantine flag. See under Quarantine, and 3d Flag. -- Yellow jack. (a) The yellow fever. See under 2d Jack. (b) The quarantine flag. See under Quarantine. -- Yellow jacket (Zoöl.), any one of several species of American social wasps of the genus Vespa, in which the color of the body is partly bright yellow. These wasps are noted for their irritability, and for their painful stings. -- Yellow lead ore (Min.), wulfenite. -- Yellow lemur (Zoöl.), the kinkajou. -- Yellow macauco (Zoöl.), the kinkajou. -- Yellow mackerel (Zoöl.), the jurel. -- Yellow metal. Same as Muntz metal, under Metal. -- Yellow ocher (Min.), an impure, earthy variety of brown iron ore, which is used as a pigment. -- Yellow oxeye (Bot.), a yellow-flowered plant (Chrysanthemum segetum) closely related to the oxeye daisy. -- Yellow perch (Zoöl.), the common American perch. See Perch. -- Yellow pike (Zoöl.), the wall-eye. -- Yellow pine (Bot.), any of several kinds of pine; also, their yellowish and generally durable timber. Among the most common are valuable species are Pinus mitis and Pinus palustris of the Eastern and Southern States, and Pinus ponderosa and Pinus Arizonica of the Rocky Mountains and Pacific States. -- Yellow plover (Zoöl.), the golden plover. -- Yellow precipitate (Med. Chem.), an oxide of mercury which is thrown down as an amorphous yellow powder on adding corrosive sublimate to limewater. -- Yellow puccoon. (Bot.) Same as Orangeroot. -- Yellow rail (Zoöl.), a small American rail (Porzana Noveboracensis) in which the lower parts are dull yellow, darkest on the breast. The back is streaked with brownish yellow and with black, and spotted with white. Called also yellow crake. -- Yellow rattle, Yellow rocket. (Bot.) See under Rattle, and Rocket. -- Yellow Sally (Zoöl.), a greenish or yellowish European stone fly of the genus Chloroperla; -- so called by anglers. -- Yellow sculpin (Zoöl.), the dragonet. -- Yellow snake (Zoöl.), a West Indian boa (Chilobothrus inornatus) common in Jamaica. It becomes from eight to ten long. The body is yellowish or yellowish green, mixed with black, and anteriorly with black lines. -- Yellow spot. (a) (Anat.) A small yellowish spot with a central pit, the fovea centralis, in the center of the retina where vision is most accurate. See Eye. (b) (Zoöl.) A small American butterfly (Polites Peckius) of the Skipper family. Its wings are brownish, with a large, irregular, bright yellow spot on each of the hind wings, most conspicuous beneath. Called also Peck's skipper. See Illust. under Skipper, n., 5. -- Yellow tit (Zoöl.), any one of several species of crested titmice of the genus Machlolophus, native of India. The predominating colors of the plumage are yellow and green. -- Yellow viper (Zoöl.), the fer-de-lance. -- Yellow warbler (Zoöl.), any one of several species of American warblers of the genus Dendroica in which the predominant color is yellow, especially Dendroica æstiva, which is a very abundant and familiar species; -- called also garden warbler, golden warbler, summer yellowbird, summer warbler, and yellow-poll warbler. -- Yellow wash (Pharm.), yellow oxide of mercury suspended in water, -- a mixture prepared by adding corrosive sublimate to limewater. -- Yellow wren (Zoöl.) (a) The European willow warbler. (b) The European wood warbler.

yellow, n.

A bright golden color, reflecting more light than any other except white; the color of that part of the spectrum which is between the orange and green. Shak. [1913 Webster]
A yellow pigment. [1913 Webster]

Cadmium yellow, Chrome yellow, Indigo yellow, King's yellow, etc. See under Cadmium, Chrome, etc. -- Naples yellow, a yellow amorphous pigment, used in oil, porcelain, and enamel painting, consisting of a basic lead metantimonate, obtained by fusing together tartar emetic lead nitrate, and common salt. -- Patent yellow (Old Chem.), a yellow pigment consisting essentially of a lead oxychloride; -- called also Turner's yellow.

yellow, v. t.

To make yellow; to cause to have a yellow tinge or color; to dye yellow. [1913 Webster]

yellow, v. i.

To become yellow or yellower. [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

yellow, adj., n., & v.
--adj.
1 of the colour between green and orange in the spectrum, of buttercups, lemons, egg-yolks, or gold.
2 of the colour of faded leaves, ripe wheat, etc.
3 having a yellow skin or complexion.
4 colloq. cowardly.
5 (of looks, feelings, etc.) jealous, envious, or suspicious.
6 (of newspapers etc.) unscrupulously sensational.
--n.
1 a yellow colour or pigment.
2 yellow clothes or material (dressed in yellow).
3 a a yellow ball, piece, etc., in a game or sport. b the player using such pieces.
4 (usu. in comb.) a yellow moth or butterfly.
5 (in pl.) jaundice of horses etc.
6 US a peach-disease with yellowed leaves.
--v.tr. & intr. make or become yellow.

Idiom

yellow arsenic = ORPIMENT. yellow-belly 1 colloq. a coward.
2 any of various fish with yellow underparts. yellow card Football a card shown by the referee to a player being cautioned. yellow fever a tropical virus disease with fever and jaundice.
yellow flag
1 a flag displayed by a ship in quarantine.
2 an iridaceous plant, Iris pseudacorus, with slender sword-shaped leaves and yellow flowers.
yellow jack
1 = yellow fever.
2 = yellow flag. yellow line (in the UK) a line painted along the side of the road in yellow either singly or in pairs to denote parking restrictions. yellow metal brass of 60 parts copper and 40 parts zinc. Yellow Pages propr. a section of a telephone directory on yellow paper and listing business subscribers according to the goods or services they offer. the yellow peril the political or military threat regarded as emanating from Asian peoples, esp. the Chinese. yellow rattle a yellow-flowered plant of the genus Rhinanthus. yellow rocket see ROCKET(2). yellow spot the point of acutest vision in the retina. yellow streak colloq. a trait of cowardice.

Derivative

yellowish adj. yellowly adv. yellowness n. yellowy adj.

Etymology

OE geolu, geolo f. WG, rel. to GOLD

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THESAURUS

yellow

Amytal, Amytal pill, Barnumesque, Cassel yellow, Claude tint, Demerol, Dolophine, H, Luminal, Luminal pill, M, Mickey Finn, Nembutal, Nembutal pill, Paris yellow, Seconal, Seconal pill, Tuinal, Tuinal pill, acid yellow, afraid, albumen, alcohol, amber, amobarbital sodium, analgesic, anodyne, arsenic yellow, aureate, aureateness, aureolin, auric, aurify, barb, barbiturate, barbiturate pill, begild, beige, black stuff, blue, blue angel, blue devil, blue heaven, blue velvet, buff, buff-yellow, butter, cadmium yellow, calmative, canary, canary-yellow, caviar, chamois, champagne, chartreuse yellow, chicken, chickenhearted, chloral hydrate, chrome, chrome lemon, chrome yellow, chrysophenin, citron, citron-yellow, cloak-and-dagger, codeine, codeine cough syrup, coward, cowardly, cowed, crash, craven, cream, creamy, crocus, dandelion, daunted, depressant, depressor, dismayed, distrustful, dolly, downer, ecru, egg, egg white, eggshell, engild, envious, fainthearted, fallow, fallowness, fearful, fish eggs, flax, flaxen, funking, funky, gamboge, gild, gilded, gilt, glair, gold, gold-colored, golden, golden pheasant, goofball, green, green with jealousy, green-eyed, grege, gutless, hard stuff, henhearted, heroin, honey, honey yellow, hop, horn-mad, horse, hypnotic, intimidated, invidious, jaundice, jaundice-eyed, jaundiced, jealous, jonquil, junk, knockout drops, laudanum, lemon, lemon chrome, lemon-yellow, lily-livered, liquor, lotus, lurid, luteolous, lutescent, madder yellow, maize, massicot, melodramatic, meperidine, metanil yellow, methadone, methyl yellow, milk-livered, milksoppish, milksoppy, morphia, morphine, mousy, naphthol yellow, narcotic, ocherish, ocherous, ochery, ochreous, ochroid, ochrous, ochry, oil yellow, old gold, old ivory, olivesheen, opiate, opium, or, orpiment, overtimid, overtimorous, ovule, pacifier, pain killer, panic-prone, panicky, paregoric, peach, pebble, pen yan, phenobarbital, phenobarbital sodium, phosphine, pigeonhearted, primrose, primrose-colored, primrose-yellow, primuline yellow, purple heart, purree, pusillanimous, pyrethrum yellow, quietener, quince yellow, rabbity, rainbow, red, roe, saffron, saffron-colored, saffron-yellow, sallow, sand, sand-colored, sandy, scag, secobarbital sodium, sedative, sensational, shit, shocker, sissified, sissy, sleep-inducer, sleeper, sleeping draught, sleeping pill, smack, snapdragon, sodium thiopental, soft, somnifacient, soother, soothing syrup, soporific, spawn, spine-chilling, spunkless, stil-de-grain yellow, straw, straw-colored, sulfur, sunflower yellow, suspicious, tar, tartrazine, timid, timorous, tranquilizer, turn yellow, turps, unmanly, unmanned, vitellus, weak, weak-kneed, weakhearted, white, white stuff, white-livered, xanthene, xanthic, xanthin, xanthous, yellow jacket, yellow madder, yellow ocher, yellow-eyed, yellowish, yellowishness, yellowness, yolk

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yellow

Excitation

N excitation of feeling, mental excitement, suscitation, galvanism, stimulation, piquance, piquancy, provocation, inspiration, calling forth, infection, animation, agitation, perturbation, subjugation, fascination, intoxication, enravishment, entrancement, pressure, tension, high pressure, unction, impressiveness, trail of temper, casus belli, irritation, passion, thrill, repression of feeling, sensationalism, yellow journalism, excited, wrought up, up the qui vive, astir, sparkling, in a quiver, in a fever, in a ferment, in a blaze, in a state of excitement, in hysterics, black in the face, overwrought, tense, taught, on a razor's edge, hot, red-hot, flushed, feverish, all of a twitter, in a pucker, with quivering lips, with tears in one's eyes, flaming, boiling over, ebullient, seething, foaming at the mouth, fuming, raging, carried away by passion, wild, raving, frantic, mad, distracted, beside oneself, out of one's wits, ready to burst, bouleverse, demoniacal, lost, eperdu, tempest-tossed, haggard, ready to sink, stung to the quick, up, on one's high ropes, exciting, absorbing, riveting, distracting, impressive, warm, glowing, fervid, swelling, imposing, spirit-stirring, thrilling, high-wrought, soul-stirring, soul-subduing, heart-stirring, heart- swelling, heart-thrilling, agonizing, telling, sensational, hysterical, overpowering, overwhelming, more than flesh and blood can bear, yellow, piquant, spicy, appetizing, provocative, provoquant, tantalizing, eager to go, anxious to go, chafing at the bit, till one is black in the face, the heart beating high, the heart going pitapat, the heart leaping into one's mouth, the blood being up, the blood boiling in one's veins, the eye glistening, the eyes in a fine frenzy rolling, the head turned, when the going gets tough, the tough get going.

Yellowness

N yellowness, yellow, or, gamboge, cadmium-yellow, chrome-yellow, Indian-yellow king's-yellow, lemonyellow, orpiment, yellow ocher, Claude tint, aureolin, xanthein, xanthin, zaofulvin, crocus, saffron, topaz, xanthite, yolk, jaundice, London fog, yellowness, icterus, xantho- cyanopia, xanthopsia, yellow, aureate, golden, flavous, citrine, fallow, fulvous, fulvid, sallow, luteous, tawny, creamy, sandy, xanthic, xanthous, jaundiced, auricomous, gold-colored, citron-colored, saffron-colored, lemon-colored, lemon yellow, sulphur-colored, amber-colored, straw-colored, primrose- colored, creamcolored, xanthocarpous, xanthochroid, xanthopous, yellow as a quince, yellow as a guinea, yellow as a crow's foot, warm, advancing, yellowness, yellow, or, gamboge, cadmium-yellow, chrome-yellow, Indian-yellow king's-yellow, lemonyellow, orpiment, yellow ocher, Claude tint, aureolin, xanthein, xanthin, zaofulvin, crocus, saffron, topaz, xanthite, yolk, jaundice, London fog, yellowness, icterus, xantho- cyanopia, xanthopsia, yellow, aureate, golden, flavous, citrine, fallow, fulvous, fulvid, sallow, luteous, tawny, creamy, sandy, xanthic, xanthous, jaundiced, auricomous, gold-colored, citron-colored, saffron-colored, lemon-colored, lemon yellow, sulphur-colored, amber-colored, straw-colored, primrose- colored, creamcolored, xanthocarpous, xanthochroid, xanthopous, yellow as a quince, yellow as a guinea, yellow as a crow's foot, warm, advancing.

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adder

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Noun

HYPHEN

add=er

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun adder has 3 senses

adder(n = noun.person) - a person who adds numbers;

adder(n = noun.artifact) - a machine that adds numbers;

is a kind of

calculating machine

calculator

Derived forms verb add₄, verb add₅

adder(n = noun.animal) common viper, vipera berus - small terrestrial viper common in northern Eurasia;

is a kind of viper

is a member of genus vipera, vipera

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CIDE DICTIONARY

adder, n. [See Add.].

One who, or that which, adds; esp., a machine for adding numbers. [1913 Webster]

adder, n. [OE. addere, naddere, eddre, AS. nædre, adder, snake; akin to OS. nadra, OHG. natra, natara, Ger. natter, Goth. nadrs, Icel. na&edh;r, masc., na&edh;ra, fem.: cf. W. neidr, Gorn. naddyr, Ir. nathair, L. natrix, water snake. An adder is for a nadder.].

A serpent. Wyclif. Gen. iii. 4. ) [1913 Webster]
A small venomous serpent of the genus Vipera. The common European adder is the Vipera berus or Pelias berus. The puff adders of Africa are species of Clotho. [1913 Webster]
" In the sculptures the appellation is given to several venomous serpents, -- sometimes to the horned viper (Cerastles)." [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

adder, n. any of various small venomous snakes, esp. the common viper, Vipera berus, the only poisonous snake in Great Britain.

Idiom

adder's tongue any fern of the genus Ophioglossum.

Etymology

OE n{aelig}dre: n lost in ME by wrong division of a naddre: cf. APRON, AUGER, UMPIRE

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adder

n. A species of snake. So called from its habit of adding funeral outlays to the other expenses of living.

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adder

Evil doer

N evil doer, evil worker, wrongdoer, mischief-maker, marplot, oppressor, tyrant, destroyer, Vandal, iconoclast, firebrand, incendiary, fire bug, pyromaniac, anarchist, communist, terrorist, savage, brute, ruffian, barbarian, semibarbarian, caitiff, desperado, Apache, hoodlum, hood, plug-ugly, Red Skin, tough, Mohawk, Mo-hock, Mo-hawk, bludgeon man, bully, rough, hooligan, larrikin, dangerous classes, ugly customer, thief, cockatrice, scorpion, hornet, snake, viper, adder, snake in the grass, serpent, cobra, asp, rattlesnake, anaconda, canker-worm, wire-worm, locust, Colorado beetle, alacran, alligator, caymon, crocodile, mosquito, mugger, octopus, torpedo, bane, cutthroat, cannibal, anthropophagus, anthropophagist, bloodsucker, vampire, ogre, ghoul, gorilla, vulture, gyrfalcon, gerfalcon, wild beast, tiger, hyena, butcher, hangman, blood-hound, hell- hound, sleuth-hound, catamount, cougar, jaguar, puma, hag, hellhag, beldam, Jezebel, monster, fiend, devil incarnate, demon in human shape, Frankenstein's monster, harpy, siren, Furies, Eumenides, Hun, Attila, scourge of the human race, faenum habet in cornu.

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Table of Contents -- tongue POS
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tongue

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Noun, Verb (transitive)

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun tongue has 8 senses

tongue(n = noun.body) clapper, glossa, lingua - a mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity;

is a kind of organ, articulator

is a part of mouth, oral cavity, oral fissure, rima oris, pharynx, throat

has parts: gustatory organ, taste bud, tastebud

Derived forms verb tongue₂, verb tongue₁

tongue(n = noun.communication) natural language - a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language;

is a kind of language, linguistic communication

has particulars: first language, maternal language, mother tongue, tonal language, tone language, creole, american-indian language, american indian, amerind, amerindian language, indian, eskimo-aleut, eskimo-aleut language, chukchi, chukchi language, sino-tibetan, sino-tibetan language, austro-asiatic, austro-asiatic language, munda-mon-khmer, hmong, hmong language, miao, austronesian, austronesian language, papuan, papuan language, khoisan, khoisan language, indo-european, indo-european language, indo-hittite, ural-altaic, basque, elamite, elamitic, susian, cassite, kassite, caucasian, caucasian language, dravidian, dravidian language, dravidic, afrasian, afrasian language, afro-asiatic, afroasiatic, afroasiatic language, hamito-semitic, niger-kordofanian, niger-kordofanian language, nilo-saharan, nilo-saharan language

tongue(n = noun.shape) knife - any long thin projection that is transient; "tongues of flame licked at the walls"; "rifles exploded quick knives of fire into the dark"

is a kind of projection

tongue(n = noun.communication) - a manner of speaking; "he spoke with a thick tongue"; "she has a glib tongue"

has particulars: sharp tongue

tongue(n = noun.object) spit - a narrow strip of land that juts out into the sea;

is a kind of cape, ness

tongue(n = noun.food) - the tongue of certain animals used as meat;

is a kind of

organs

variety meat

has particulars: beef tongue, calf's tongue

tongue(n = noun.artifact) - the flap of material under the laces of a shoe or boot;

is a part of

boot

shoe

is a kind of flap

tongue(n = noun.artifact) clapper - metal striker that hangs inside a bell and makes a sound by hitting the side;

is a part of bell

is a kind of striker

Verb tongue has 2 senses

tongue(v = verb.creation) - articulate by tonguing, as when playing wind instruments;

is one way to

play

spiel

Derived form noun tongue₁

Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something

tongue(v = verb.contact) - lick or explore with the tongue;

is one way to

lap

lick

Derived form noun tongue₁

Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

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CIDE DICTIONARY

tongue, n. [OE. tunge, tonge, AS. tunge; akin to OFries. tunge, D. tong, OS. tunga, G. zunge, OHG. zunga, Icel. & Sw. tunga, Dan tunge, Goth. tugg, OL. dingua, L. lingua. Language, Lingo. ].

an organ situated in the floor of the mouth of most vertebrates and connected with the hyoid arch. [1913 Webster]
" The tongue is usually muscular, mobile, and free at one extremity, and in man other mammals is the principal organ of taste, aids in the prehension of food, in swallowing, and in modifying the voice as in speech." [1913 Webster]

"To make his English sweet upon his tongue." [1913 Webster]

The power of articulate utterance; speech. [1913 Webster]
"Parrots imitating human tongue." [1913 Webster]

Discourse; fluency of speech or expression. [1913 Webster]
"Much tongue and much judgment seldom go together." [1913 Webster]

Honorable discourse; eulogy. [1913 Webster]
"She was born noble; let that title find her a private grave, but neither tongue nor honor." [1913 Webster]

A language; the whole sum of words used by a particular nation; as, the English tongue. Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
"Whose tongue thou shalt not understand." [1913 Webster]

"To speak all tongues." [1913 Webster]

Speech; words or declarations only; -- opposed to thoughts or actions. [1913 Webster]
"My little children, let us love in word, neither in tongue, but in deed and in truth." [1913 Webster]

A people having a distinct language. [1913 Webster]
"A will gather all nations and tongues." [1913 Webster]

The lingual ribbon, or odontophore, of a mollusk. [1913 Webster]

Any small sole. [1913 Webster]

That which is considered as resembing an animal's tongue, in position or form. [1913 Webster]

To hold the tongue, to be silent. -- Tongue bone (Anat.), the hyoid bone. -- Tongue grafting. See under Grafting.

Syn. -- Language; speech; expression. See Language.

tongue, v. t.

To speak; to utter. Shak. [1913 Webster]

To chide; to scold. [1913 Webster]
"How might she tongue me." [1913 Webster]

To modulate or modify with the tongue, as notes, in playing the flute and some other wind instruments. [1913 Webster]

To join means of a tongue and grove; as, to tongue boards together. [1913 Webster]

tongue, v. i.

To talk; to prate. Dryden. [1913 Webster]

To use the tongue in forming the notes, as in playing the flute and some other wind instruments. [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

tongue, n. & v.
--n.
1 the fleshy muscular organ in the mouth used in tasting, licking, and swallowing, and (in man) for speech.
2 the tongue of an ox etc. as food.
3 the faculty of or a tendency in speech (a sharp tongue).
4 a particular language (the German tongue).
5 a thing like a tongue in shape or position, esp.: a a long low promontory. b a strip of leather etc., attached at one end only, under the laces in a shoe. c the clapper of a bell. d the pin of a buckle. e the projecting strip on a wooden etc. board fitting into the groove of another. f a vibrating slip in the reed of some musical instruments. g a jet of flame.
--v. (tongues, tongued, tonguing)
1 tr. produce staccato etc. effects with (a flute etc.) by means of tonguing.
2 intr. use the tongue in this way.

Idiom

find (or lose) one's tongue be able (or unable) to express oneself after a shock etc. the gift of tongues the power of speaking in unknown languages, regarded as one of the gifts of the Holy Spirit (Acts 2). keep a civil tongue in one's head avoid rudeness. tongue-and-groove applied to boards in which a tongue along one edge fits into a groove along the edge of the next, each board having a tongue on one edge and a groove on the other. tongue-in-cheek adj. ironic; slyly humorous.
--adv. insincerely or ironically. tongue-lashing a severe scolding or reprimand. tongue-tie a speech impediment due to a malformation of the tongue. tongue-tied
1 too shy or embarrassed to speak.
2 having a tongue-tie. tongue-twister a sequence of words difficult to pronounce quickly and correctly. with one's tongue hanging out eagerly or expectantly. with one's tongue in one's cheek insincerely or ironically.

Derivative

tongued adj. (also in comb.). tongueless adj.

Etymology

OE tunge f. Gmc, rel. to L lingua

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THESAURUS

tongue
Maypole, abatis, aftertaste, alveolar ridge, alveolus, apex, argot, articulation, arytenoid cartilages, back, bagpipe, bar, baste, bell, berate, bill, bitter, blade, blow, blow a horn, blunder, boob, brains, breakwater, bugle, cape, carillon, carpet, chersonese, chew out, chimes, chitterlings, church bell, clapper, clarion, cockscomb, coral reef, cowbell, delta, dialect, dinner bell, dinner gong, doodle, doorbell, dorsum, double-tongue, facetiously, faux pas, fife, fire bell, flagstaff, flavor, flute, foreland, gaffe, giblets, gizzard, gong, gong bell, gust, hand bell, hard palate, haslet, head, headland, heart, hook, idiom, in fun, in jest, jaw, jestingly, jingle bell, jocularly, jokingly, keep mum, kidneys, language, langue, lap, larynx, lick, lingo, lingua, linguistic act, lip, lips, liver, locution, marrow, mistake, mouth, mull, nasal cavity, naze, ness, oral cavity, palate, parlance, parol, parole, passing bell, patois, peninsula, personal usage, pharyngeal cavity, pharynx, phonation, phraseology, pipe, point, pole, promontory, rail, rate, reef, relish, rod, sacring bell, salt, sandspit, sapidity, sapor, savor, savoriness, say nothing, scape, sequence of phonemes, shaft, sheepbell, shut up, sleigh bell, slip, smack, soft palate, sound, sour, speaking, speech, speech act, speech organ, spit, spur, stalk, stem, stick, stomach, string, sweet, sweetbread, syrinx, talk, tang, taste, taste bud, teeth, teeth ridge, telephone bell, the spoken word, tintinnabulum, tip, toot, tooth, tootle, totem pole, triangle, tripe, triple-tongue, trumpet, tweedle, upbraid, usage, utterance, utterance string, velum, vernacular, vocable, vocal chink, vocal cords, vocal folds, vocal processes, voice, voice box, whimsically, whistle, wind, wind the horn, word, word of mouth

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tongue

Language
N language, phraseology, speech, tongue, lingo, vernacular, mother tongue, vulgar tongue, native tongue, household words, King's English, Queen's English, dialect, confusion of tongues, Babel, pasigraphie, pantomime, onomatopoeia, betacism, mimmation, myatism, nunnation, pasigraphy, lexicology, philology, glossology, glottology, linguistics, chrestomathy, paleology, paleography, comparative grammar, literature, letters, polite literature, belles lettres, muses, humanities, literae humaniores, republic of letters, dead languages, classics, genius of language, scholarship, lingual, linguistic, dialectic, vernacular, current, bilingual, diglot, hexaglot, polyglot, literary, syllables govern the world.

Loquacity
N loquacity, loquaciousness, talkativeness, garrulity, multiloquence, much speaking, jaw, gabble, jabber, chatter, prate, prattle, cackle, clack, twaddle, twattle, rattle, caquet, caquetterie, blabber, bavardage, bibble-babble, gibble-gabble, small talk, fluency, flippancy, volubility, flowing, tongue, flow of words, flux de bouche, flux de mots, copia verborum, cacoethes loquendi, furor loquendi, verbosity, gift of the gab, talker, chatterer, chatterbox, babbler, rattle, ranter, sermonizer, proser, driveler, blatherskite, gossip, magpie, jay, parrot, poll, Babel, moulin a paroles, loquacious, talkative, garrulous, linguacious, multiloquous, largiloquent, chattering, chatty, declamatory, open-mouthed, fluent, voluble, glib, flippant, long tongued, long winded, trippingly on the tongue, glibly, off the reel, the tongue running fast, the tongue running loose, the tongue running on wheels, all talk and no cider, foul whisperings are abroad, what a spendthrift is he of his tongue!.

Convexity
N convexity, prominence, projection, swelling, gibbosity, bilge, bulge, protuberance, protrusion, camber, cahot, thank-ye-ma'am, swell, intumescence, tumour, tumor, tubercle, tuberosity, excrescence, hump, hunch, bunch, boss, embossment, hub, hubble, tooth, knob, elbow, process, apophysis, condyle, bulb, node, nodule, nodosity, tongue, dorsum, bump, clump, sugar loaf, bow, mamelon, molar, belly, corporation, pot belly, gut, withers, back, shoulder, lip, flange, pimple, zit, wen, wheel, papula, pustule, pock, proud flesh, growth, sarcoma, caruncle, corn, wart, pappiloma, furuncle, polypus, fungus, fungosity, exostosis, bleb, blister, blain, boil, airbubble, blob, papule, verruca, papilla, nipple, teat, tit, titty, boob, knocker, pap, breast, dug, mammilla, proboscis, nose, neb, beak, snout, nozzle, schnoz, peg, button, stud, ridge, rib, jutty, trunnion, snag, cupola, dome, arch, balcony, eaves, pilaster, relief, relievo, cameo, bassorilievo, mezzorilevo, altorivievo, low relief, bas relief, high relief, hill, cape, promontory, mull, forehead, foreland, point of land, mole, jetty, hummock, ledge, spur, naze, ness, convex, prominent, protuberant, projecting, bossed, embossed, bossy, nodular, bunchy, clavate, clavated, claviform, hummocky, moutonne, mammiliform, papulous, papilose, hemispheric, bulbous, bowed, arched, bold, bellied, tuberous, tuberculous, tumous, cornute, odontoid, lentiform, lenticular, gibbous, club shaped, hubby, hubbly, knobby, papillose, saddle-shaped, selliform, subclavate, torose, ventricose, verrucose, salient, in relief, raised, repousse, bloated, (expanded).

Taste
N taste, good taste, refined taste, cultivated taste, delicacy, refinement, fine feeling, gust, gusto, tact, finesse, nicety, to prepon, polish, elegance, grace, judgment, discernment, dilettantism, dilettanteism, virtu, fine art, culture, cultivation, aesthetics, man of taste, connoisseur, judge, critic, conoscente, virtuoso, amateur, dilettante, Aristarchus, Corinthian, arbiter elegantiarum, stagirite, euphemist, caviare to the general, in good taste, cute, tasteful, tasty, unaffected, pure, chaste, classical, attic, cultivated, refined, dainty, esthetic, aesthetic, artistic, elegant, euphemistic, to one's taste, to one's mind, after one's fancy, comme il faut, tire a quatre epingles, elegantly, nihil tetigit quod non ornavit, chacun a son gout, oculi pictura tenentur aures cantibus, taste, flavor, gust, gusto, savor, gout, relish, sapor, sapidity, twang, smack, smatch, aftertaste, tang, tasting, degustation, gustation, palate, tongue, tooth, stomach, sapid, saporific, gustable, gustatory, gustful, strong, gamy, palatable.

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