Definition of tongues. Meaning of tongues. Synonyms of tongues

Here you will find one or more explanations in English for the word tongues. Also in the bottom left of the page several parts of wikipedia pages related to the word tongues and, of course, tongues synonyms and on the right images related to the word tongues.

Definition of tongues

Tongue
Tongue Tongue, v. i. 1. To talk; to prate. --Dryden. 2. (Mus.) To use the tongue in forming the notes, as in playing the flute and some other wind instruments.
Tongue
Tongue Tongue, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tongued; p. pr. & vb. n. Tonguing.] 1. To speak; to utter. ``Such stuff as madmen tongue.' --Shak. 2. To chide; to scold. How might she tongue me. --Shak. 3. (Mus.) To modulate or modify with the tongue, as notes, in playing the flute and some other wind instruments. 4. To join means of a tongue and grove; as, to tongue boards together.
tongue
Radula Rad"u*la, n.; pl. Radul[ae]. [L., a scraper, fr. radere to scrape.] (Zo["o]l.) The chitinous ribbon bearing the teeth of mollusks; -- called also lingual ribbon, and tongue. See Odontophore.

Meaning of tongues from wikipedia

- might informally be called tongues, but they lack a muscular structure like the true tongues found in most tetrapods. The tongue can be used as a metonym...
- in tongues. 17th centuryEarly Quakers, such as Edward Burrough, make mention of tongues-speaking in their meetings: "We spoke with new tongues, as...
- the track "Doin' Our Own Dang" as "the definitive Native Tongues posse cut". The Native Tongues took their name from a line in the song “African Cry,” by...
- Larks' Tongues in A**** is the fifth studio album by the English progressive rock group King Crimson, released on 23 March 1973 through Island Records...
- Look up speaking in tongues in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Speaking in tongues is the phenomenon of speaking in unintelligible utterances (often...
- In Tongues may refer to: Glossolalia or speaking in tongues is the phenomenon of speaking in unintelligible utterances (often as part of religious practices)...
- races might continue to acquire coherence through him. The confusion of tongues (confusio linguarum) is the origin myth for the fragmentation of human...
- communication The Tongue, or Xannon Shirley, Australian musician Tongues (Esham album), 2001 Tongues (Kieran Hebden and Steve Reid album), 2007 "Tongue" (song)...
- the 2001 census subsumes one or more mother tongues. Speaker numbers are available for these mother tongues and they are also included in the speaker numbers...
- cataglottism or a tongue kiss, is an amorous kiss in which the parti****nts' tongues extend to touch each other's lips or tongue. A kiss with the tongue stimulates...