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Linctus :: Linctus (n.) Medicine taken by licking with the tongue.

Fauces :: Fauces (n.pl.) The narrow passage from the mouth to the pharynx, situated between the soft palate and the base of the tongue; -- called also the isthmus of the fauces. On either side of the passage two membranous folds, called the pillars of the fauces, inclose the tonsils..

Tongued :: Tongued (imp. & p. p.) of Tongu.

Tongue :: Tongue (n.) an organ situated in the floor of the mouth of most vertebrates and connected with the hyoid arch.

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..

Filiform :: Filiform (a.) Having the shape of a thread or filament; as, the filiform papillae of the tongue; a filiform style or peduncle. See Illust. of AntennAe..

Pachyglossal :: Pachyglossal (a.) Having a thick tongue; -- applied to a group of lizards (Pachyglossae), including the iguanas and agamas..

Untongue :: Untongue (v. t.) To deprive of a tongue, or of voice..

Adder's-tongue :: Adder's-tongue (n.) The yellow dogtooth violet.

Long-tongued :: Long-tongued (a.) Having a long tongue.

Tongue :: Tongue (n.) A projection on the side, as of a board, which fits into a groove..

Tongue-shell :: Tongue-shell (n.) Any species of Lingula.

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

Futchel :: Futchel (n.) The jaws between which the hinder end of a carriage tongue is inserted.

Latinity :: Latinity (n.) The Latin tongue, style, or idiom, or the use thereof; specifically, purity of Latin style or idiom..

Lap :: Lap (n.) The act of lapping with, or as with, the tongue; as, to take anything into the mouth with a lap..

Dorsal :: Dorsal (a.) Pertaining to, or situated near, the back, or dorsum, of an animal or of one of its parts; notal; tergal; neural; as, the dorsal fin of a fish; the dorsal artery of the tongue; -- opposed to ventral..

Clapper :: Clapper (n.) That which strikes or claps, as the tongue of a bell, or the piece of wood that strikes a mill hopper, etc. See Illust. of Bell..

High :: High (superl.) Made with a high position of some part of the tongue in relation to the palate, as / (/ve), / (f/d). See Guide to Pronunciation, // 10, 11..

Entoglossal :: Entoglossal (a.) Within the tongue; -- applied to the glossohyal bone.

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