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noun(tongue)a fleshy movable muscular process of the floor of the mouths of most vertebrates that bears sensory end organs and small glands and functions especially in taking and swallowing food and in humans as a speech organ
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noun(tongue)a part of various invertebrate animals that is analogous to the tongue
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noun(tongue)the flesh of a tongue (as of the ox or sheep) used as food
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verb(tongue)to articulate (notes on a wind instrument) by successively interrupting the stream of wind with the action of the tongue
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verb(tongue)to touch or lick with or as if with the tongue
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verb(tongue)to cut a tongue on
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idiom(tongue)—used to say that people are talking a lot about something
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noun phrase(tongue)a divinely granted gift or talent identified by ecstatic, usually unintelligible speech
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idiom(tongue)—used to say that people are talking a lot about something
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idiom(tongue)to say strange words that no one can understand, especially as part of a religious experience
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noun(tongue)any of a genus (Ophioglossum, family Ophioglossaceae) of small ferns having a spore-bearing stalk resembling a serpent's tongue
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noun(tongue)dogtooth violet
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verb(tongue)to seize especially with teeth or jaws so as to enter, grip, or wound
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verb(tongue)to wound, pierce, or sting especially with a fang or a proboscis
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verb(tongue)to cut or pierce with or as if with an edged weapon
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noun(tongue)a wide blade attached to a cultivator or plow to stir the soil, kill weeds, or mark furrows
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verb(tongue)to cause the tongue to alternate rapidly between the positions for t and k so as to produce a fast succession of detached notes on a wind instrument