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English Dictionary: tongued by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
tongued
adj
  1. provided with or resembling a tongue; often used in combination; "tongued shoes"; "tongued boards"; "toungued lightning"; "long-tongued"
    Antonym(s): tongueless
  2. having a manner of speaking as specified; often used in combination; "golden-tongued"; "sharp-tongued"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Tongued \Tongued\, a.
      Having a tongue.
  
               Tongued like the night crow.                  --Donne.
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