A mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity

Usage examples of tongue.

He was almost convinced that reducing a tree to lumber expunged whatever might be abiding within when he saw the long, hooked tongue emerge from the wall behind the bed.

I just sat back on my heels and let her tongue lash over me, until at last it dawned on me that the old abo must have gone running to her and she thought we were responsible for scaring him out of what wits he had.

To his surprise, thirty years afterward, one of the teeth was removed from an abscess of the tongue.

Then calling on the name of Allah, he gave a last keen cunning sweep with the blade, and following that, the earth awfully quaked and groaned, as if speaking in the abysmal tongue the Mastery of the Event to all men.

Much useful comparative information was obtained during the following minute of suspended ecstasy, during which the female tongues parted into thousands of fine tentacles, exploring every accessible cavity of the male bodies.

Dragged by the scruff of the neck, Leif stared at the carnage wide-eyed as Acies whistled and shouted something in a strange tongue.

An acutely satiric man in an English circle, that does not resort to the fist for a reply to him, may almost satiate the excessive fury roused in his mind by an illogical people of a provocative prosperity, mainly tongueless or of leaden tongue above the pressure of their necessities, as he takes them to be.

Giles clucked his tongue as though admonishing a child caught stealing tarts.

Was the unfortunate aeronaut slowly bleeding to death, lying there amidst the bushes on that tongue of land?

Laa-queel had heard the afanc had learned to speak some human tongues and often lured sailors to their own deaths.

Laaqueel had heard the afanc had learned to speak some human tongues and often lured sailors to their own deaths.

All Aga had come back that same day with his tongue hanging out and had brought the news.

Ali Aga bit his tongue, turned with a shiver to the wall and made off.

Gwalchmai, while he wore the ring, could understand any language Merlin had known, this strange agglutinative tongue baffled him.

The herd paused for an instant at the edge of the slope, but Akela gave tongue in the full hunting yell, and they pitched over one after the other just as steamers shoot rapids, the sand and stones spurting up round them.