The flexible muscular organ in the mouth that is used to move food around, for tasting and that is moved into various positions to modify the flow of air from the lungs in order to produce different sounds in speech.
(nautical) A short piece of ropespliced into the upper part of standing backstays, etc.; also, the upper main piece of a mast composed of several pieces.
(music, ambitransitive) 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 (alveolarplosive).
(slang) To manipulate with the tongue, as in kissing or oral sex.
She was born noble; let that title find her a private grave, but neither tongue nor honour.
the tongue of a buckle, or of a balance
Now, in this decadent age the art of fire-making had been altogether forgotten on the earth. The red tongues that went licking up my heap of wood were an altogether new and strange thing to Weena.
Playing wind instruments involves tonguing on the reed or mouthpiece.
a soil horizon that tongues into clay
to tongue boards together
such stuff as madmen tongue
How might she tongue me.
“It is an agglutinative tongue, meaning that is is a collection of morphemes or syllables that are grouped into words — very unusual”.