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Free-tongued :: Free-tongued (a.) Speaking without reserve.

Honey-tongued :: Honey-tongued (a.) Sweet speaking; persuasive; seductive.

Raphe :: Raphe (n.) A line, ridge, furrow, or band of fibers, especially in the median line; as, the raphe of the tongue..

Morne :: Morne (a.) Without teeth, tongue, or claws; -- said of a lion represented heraldically..

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

Aard-vark :: Aard-vark (n.) An edentate mammal, of the genus Orycteropus, somewhat resembling a pig, common in some parts of Southern Africa. It burrows in the ground, and feeds entirely on ants, which it catches with its long, slimy tongue..

Aglossal :: Aglossal (a.) Without tongue; tongueless.

Hypoglossal :: Hypoglossal (a.) Under the tongue; -- applied esp., in the higher vertebrates, to the twelfth or last pair of cranial nerves, which are distributed to the base of the tongue..

Basihyoid :: Basihyoid (n.) The central tongue bone.

Tongue :: Tongue (n.) Honorable discourse; eulogy.

Tongue :: Tongue (v. i.) To talk; to prate.

Lambative :: Lambative (a.) Taken by licking with the tongue.

Close-tongued :: Close-tongued (a.) Closemouthed; silent.

Glottology :: Glottology (n.) The science of tongues or languages; comparative philology; glossology.

Swallowtail :: Swallowtail (n.) A kind of tenon or tongue used in making joints. See Dovetail.

Stopcock :: Stop (n.) Some part of the articulating organs, as the lips, or the tongue and palate, closed (a) so as to cut off the passage of breath or voice through the mouth and the nose (distinguished as a lip-stop, or a front-stop, etc., as in p, t, d, etc.), or (b) so as to obstruct, but not entirely cut off, the passage, as in l, n, etc.; also, any of the consonants so formed..

Corn :: Corn (v. t.) To preserve and season with salt in grains; to sprinkle with salt; to cure by salting; now, specifically, to salt slightly in brine or otherwise; as, to corn beef; to corn a tongue..

Lambative :: Lambative (n.) A medicine taken by licking with the tongue; a lincture.

Lorikeet :: Lorikeet (n.) Any one numerous species of small brush-tongued parrots or lories, found mostly in Australia, New Guinea and the adjacent islands, with some forms in the East Indies. They are arboreal in their habits and feed largely upon the honey of flowers. They belong to Trichoglossus, Loriculus, and several allied genera..

Linguacious :: Linguacious (a.) Given to the use of the tongue; loquacious.

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