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Definition of Tongues

1. tongue [v] - See also: tongue

Tongues Pictures

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Tongues

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tonguefish tongueflower tongueless tongueless frog tonguelike tongues (current term) tonguester tongueworm tongue and groove joint tongue bone

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Literary usage of Tongues

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1912)
"in the patent as being used for cutting tongues, grooves, mortises, etc. Cutting grooves or mortises or tongues, by the Newton rotary disc, is merely sawing ..."

2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Again, i of the expression "speaking with tongues" Paul the alternative phrases, ... If all speak with tongues, ami there come in unlearned persons or ..."

3. The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft by Hubert Howe Bancroft (1883)
"Indeed, throughout the length and breadth of the two Americas aboriginal tongues display greater richness, more delicate gradations, and a wider scope, ..."

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