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English Dictionary: tongueless by the DICT Development Group
2 results for tongueless
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
tongueless
adj
  1. lacking a tongue; "tongueless moccasins"
    Antonym(s): tongued
  2. expressed without speech; "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
    Synonym(s): mute, tongueless, unspoken, wordless
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Tongueless \Tongue"less\, a.
      1. Having no tongue.
  
      2. Hence, speechless; mute. [bd]What tongueless blocks were
            they! would they not speak?[b8] --Shak.
  
      3. Unnamed; not spoken of. [Obs.]
  
                     One good deed dying tongueless.         --Shak.
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