The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tongueless \Tongue"less\, a.
Having no tongue.
Hence, speechless; mute. ``What tongueless blocks were they! would they not speak?''
--Shak.-
Unnamed; not spoken of. [Obs.]
One good deed dying tongueless.
--Shak.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "having no tongue;" early 15c. as "speechless, silent," from tongue (n.) + -less. Related: Tonguelessly; tonguelessness.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Having no tongue 2 Lacking speech; mute 3 Making no sound; silent, speechless 4 Expressed without speech; wordless, unspoken
WordNet
adj. lacking a tongue; "tongueless moccasins" [ant: tongued]
lacking power of speech [syn: mute]
expressed without speech; especially because words would be inappropriate or inadequate; "a mute appeal"; "a silent curse"; "best grief is tongueless"- Emily Dickinson; "the words stopped at her lips unsounded"; "unspoken grief"; "choking exasperation and wordless shame"- Thomas Wolfe [syn: mute, unspoken, wordless]
Usage examples of "tongueless".
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.
A murmuring chorus of agreement arose from their throatless, mouthless, tongueless general vicinity.
Even now, to this day, the priests of the line of Aaron are born tongueless and dumb, keepers of a useless treasure, which we must hide from the eyes of Adonai, the Lord our God, lest he remember and smite us for our folly.
But Philomela remembers her fear, and when danger comes close she again becomes tongueless.
Except for the pygmies, who could handle a bow against the cranes, would the skiapods fight bare-handed, would the ponces attack with member shouldered, would the tongueless be sent out as advance scouts to report what they had seen?
Baba Mustapha was quaking as a frog quaketh for water, and he trembled and was a tongueless creature deserted of his lower limbs, and with eyeballs goggling, through exceeding terror.
Ercole binds his hands and feet with scarlet silk cords, lets him know who it is he's run afoul of, reaches into the box with a pair of pincers, tears out Domenico's tongue, stabs him a couple times, pours into the box a beaker of aqua regia, enumerates a list of other goodies, including castration, that Domenico will undergo before he's allowed to die, all amid screams, tongueless attempts to pray, agonized struggles from the victim.
A little to his surprise, he spotted Umegat’s tongueless undergroom climbing the hill toward him.