<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>Anatomy: The usually movable organ in the floor of the mouth in humans and most vertebrates, functioning in eating, tasting, and, in humans, in speaking.</li><li>Zoology: An analogous organ in invertebrate animals.</li><li>The tongue of an animal, as an ox, beef, or sheep, used for food, often prepared by smoking or pickling.</li><li>The human tongue as the organ of speech: "No tongue must ever tell the secret."</li><li>The faculty or power of speech: "A sight no tongue can describe."</li><li>Speech or talk, especially mere glib or empty talk.</li><li>Manner or character of speech: "A flattering tongue."</li><li>The language of a particular people, region, or nation: "The Hebrew tongue."</li><li>A dialect.</li><li>(In the Bible) A people or nation distinguished by its language.</li><li>Tongues: Speech, often incomprehensible, typically uttered during moments of religious ecstasy. Compare speaking in tongues, glossolalia.</li><li>An object that resembles an animal's tongue in shape, position, or function.</li><li>A strip of leather or other material under the lacing or fastening of a shoe.</li><li>A piece of metal suspended inside a bell that strikes against the side, producing a sound; clapper.</li><li>A vibrating reed or similar structure in a musical instrument, as in a clarinet, or in part of a musical instrument, as in an organ reed pipe.</li><li>The pole extending from a carriage or other vehicle between the animals drawing it.</li><li>A projecting strip along the center of the edge or end of a board, for fitting into a groove in another board.</li><li>A narrow strip of land extending into a body of water; cape.</li><li>A section of ice projecting outward from the submerged part of an iceberg.</li><li>Machinery: A long, narrow projection on a machine.</li><li>That part of a railroad switch that is shifted to direct the wheels of a locomotive or car to one or the other track of a railroad.</li><li>The pin of a buckle, brooch, etc.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(Used with object) Tongued, tonguing: To articulate (tones played on a clarinet, trumpet, etc.) by strokes of the tongue.</li><li>Carpentry: To cut a tongue on (a board). To join or fit together by a tongue-and-groove joint. To touch with the tongue. To articulate or pronounce. Archaic: To reproach or scold. To speak or utter.</li><li>(Used without object) Tongued, tonguing: To tongue tones played on a clarinet, trumpet, etc. To talk, especially idly or foolishly; chatter; prate. To project like a tongue.</li></ul><p><strong>End of Response</strong></p>