Tongue

1. n. Same as Reed, n., 5.
2. n. an organ situated in the floor of the mouth of most vertebrates and connected with the hyoid arch.
3. n. The power of articulate utterance; speech.
4. n. Discourse; fluency of speech or expression.
5. n. Honorable discourse; eulogy.
6. n. A language; the whole sum of words used by a particular nation; as, the English tongue.
7. n. Speech; words or declarations only; — opposed to thoughts or actions.
8. n. A people having a distinct language.
9. n. The lingual ribbon, or odontophore, of a mollusk.
10. n. The proboscis of a moth or a butterfly.
11. 1n. 1 Same as Reed, n., 5.
12. 1n. 1 an organ situated in the floor of the mouth of most vertebrates and connected with the hyoid arch.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.