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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Tonguing \Tongu"ing\, vb. n. (Music) Modification of tone for a rapid staccato effect by the performer's tongue, in playing a wind instrument, as a flute. In {single tonguing} only one kind of stroke is used, the tongue articulating a rapid [bd]t;[b8] in {double tonguing}, two strokes, as for [bd]t[b8] and [bd]k,[b8] are alternated; in {triple tonguing}, [bd]t, k, t,[b8] etc. | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Tongue \Tongue\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Tongued}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Tonguing}.] 1. To speak; to utter. [bd]Such stuff as madmen tongue.[b8] --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. | |
