Adder's-tongue
(n.) A genus of ferns (Ophioglossum), whose seeds are produced on a spike resembling a serpent's tongue. |
Adder's-tongue
(n.) The yellow dogtooth violet. |
Belt
(n.) That which engirdles a person or thing |
Belt
(n.) That which restrains or confines as a girdle. |
Belt
(n.) Anything that resembles a belt, or that encircles or crosses like a belt |
Belt
(n.) Same as Band, n., 2. A very broad band is more properly termed a belt. |
Belt
(n.) One of certain girdles or zones on the surface of the planets Jupiter and Saturn, supposed to be of the nature of clouds. |
Belt
(n.) A narrow passage or strait |
Belt
(n.) A token or badge of knightly rank. |
Belt
(n.) A band of leather, or other flexible substance, passing around two wheels, and communicating motion from one to the other. |
Belt
(n.) A band or stripe, as of color, round any organ |
Belt
(v. t.) To encircle with, or as with, a belt |
Belt
(v. t.) To shear, as the buttocks and tails of sheep. |
Bird's-tongue
(n.) The knotgrass (Polygonum aviculare). |
Deer's-tongue
(n.) A plant (Liatris odoratissima) whose fleshy leaves give out a fragrance compared to vanilla. |
Dog's-tongue
(n.) Hound's-tongue. |
Double-tongue
(n.) Deceit |
Earth-tongue
(n.) A fungus of the genus Geoglossum. |
Hart-tongue
(n.) A common British fern (Scolopendrium vulgare), rare in America. |
Hart-tongue
(n.) A West Indian fern, the Polypodium Phyllitidis of Linnaeus. It is also found in Florida. |
Hound's-tongue
(n.) A biennial weed (Cynoglossum officinale), with soft tongue-shaped leaves, and an offensive odor. It bears nutlets covered with barbed or hooked prickles. Called also dog's-tongue. |
Long-tongue
(n.) The wryneck. |
Snake's-tongue
(n.) Same as Adder's-tongue. |
Tongue
(n.) an organ situated in the floor of the mouth of most vertebrates and connected with the hyoid arch. |
Tongue
(n.) The power of articulate utterance |
Tongue
(n.) Discourse |
Tongue
(n.) Honorable discourse |
Tongue
(n.) A language |
Tongue
(n.) Speech |
Tongue
(n.) A people having a distinct language. |
Tongue
(n.) The lingual ribbon, or odontophore, of a mollusk. |
Tongue
(n.) The proboscis of a moth or a butterfly. |
Tongue
(n.) The lingua of an insect. |
Tongue
(n.) Any small sole. |
Tongue
(n.) That which is considered as resembing an animal's tongue, in position or form. |
Tongue
(n.) A projection, or slender appendage or fixture |
Tongue
(n.) A projection on the side, as of a board, which fits into a groove. |
Tongue
(n.) A point, or long, narrow strip of land, projecting from the mainland into a sea or a lake. |
Tongue
(n.) The pole of a vehicle |
Tongue
(n.) The clapper of a bell. |
Tongue
(n.) A short piece of rope spliced into the upper part of standing backstays, etc. |
Tongue
(n.) Same as Reed, n., 5. |
Tongue
(v. t.) To speak |
Tongue
(v. t.) To chide |
Tongue
(v. t.) To modulate or modify with the tongue, as notes, in playing the flute and some other wind instruments. |
Tongue
(v. t.) To join means of a tongue and grove |
Tongue
(v. i.) To talk |
Tongue
(v. i.) To use the tongue in forming the notes, as in playing the flute and some other wind instruments. |
Tongue-pad
(n.) A great talker. |
Tongue-shaped
(a.) Shaped like a tongue |
knock
belt
rap
whack
whang | the act of hitting vigorously, he gave the table a whack |
tongue worm
pentastomid | wormlike arthropod having two pairs of hooks at the sides of the mouth, parasitic in nasal sinuses of mammals |
tonguefish
tongue-fish | left-eyed marine flatfish whose tail tapers to a point, of little commercial value |
| belt | a band to tie or buckle around the body (usually at the waist) |
| belt | endless loop of flexible material between two rotating shafts or pulleys |
belt belt ammunition
belted ammunition | ammunition (usually of small caliber) loaded in flexible linked strips for use in a machine gun |
| belt buckle | the buckle used to fasten a belt |
| bull tongue | a heavy plow with a single wide blade, used chiefly in cotton fields |
| cartridge belt | a broad belt with loops or pockets for holding ammunition |
clapper
tongue | metal striker that hangs inside a bell and makes a sound by hitting the side |
conveyer belt
conveyor belt
conveyer
conveyor
transporter | a moving belt that transports objects (as in a factory) |
| driving belt | a belt that carries motion from a motor to the machinery |
egg-and-dart
egg-and-anchor
egg-and-tongue | a decorative molding, a series of egg-shaped figures alternating with another shape |
| fan belt | a belt driven by the crankshaft that drives a fan that pulls air through the radiator |
garter belt
suspender belt | a wide belt of elastic with straps hanging from it, worn by women to hold up stockings |
life buoy
lifesaver
life belt
life ring | a life preserver in the form of a ring of buoyant material |
| money belt | belt with a concealed section for holding money |
safety belt
life belt safety harness | belt attaching you to some object as a restraint in order to prevent you from getting hurt |
| Sam Browne belt | leather belt supported by a strap over the right shoulder |
seat belt
seatbelt | a safety belt used in a car or plane to hold you in your seat in case of an accident |
| tongue | the flap of material under the laces of a shoe or boot |
| tongue and groove joint | a mortise joint made by fitting a projection on the edge of one board into a matching groove on another board |
| tongue depressor | a thin depressor used to press the tongue down during an examination of the mouth and throat |
waist pack
belt bag | a small pouch (usually with a zipper) that attaches to a belt and is worn around the waist |
tongue
lingua
glossa
clapper | a mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity |
chiding
scolding
objurgation
tongue-lashingcd | rebuking a person harshly |
| slip of the tongue | an accidental and usually trivial mistake in speaking |
natural language
tongue | a human written or spoken language used by a community, opposed to e.g. a computer language |
mother tongue
maternal language
first language | one's native language, the language learned by children and passed from one generation to the next |
| tongue | a manner of speaking, he spoke with a thick tongue, she has a glib tongue |
| sharp tongue | a bitter or critical manner of speaking |
| tongue twister | an expression that is difficult to articulate clearly, `rubber baby buggy bumper' is a tongue twister |
| black belt | a black sash worn to show expert standards in the martial arts (judo or karate) |
knock
bash
bang smash belt | a vigorous blow, the sudden knock floored him, he took a bash right in his face, he got a bang on the head |
| tongue | the tongue of certain animals used as meat |
| beef tongue | the tongue of a cow eaten as meat |
| calf's tongue | the tongue of a calf eaten as meat |
| asteroid belt | the region of interplanetary space between Mars and Jupiter where most asteroids are found |
| belt | an elongated region where a specific condition or characteristic is found, a belt of high pressure |
| Bible Belt | southern and midwestern United States where Protestant fundamentalism is dominant |
| Corn Belt | the midwestern states where corn is grown, Iowa and Illinois are excellent for raising corn and corn-fed livestock |
| stockbroker belt | a wealthy residential suburb |
| Van Allen belt | a belt of charged particles (resulting from cosmic rays) above the Earth trapped by the Earth's magnetic field |
borscht circuit
borsht circuit
borscht belt
borsht belt | (informal) a resort area in the Catskill Mountains of New York that was patronized primarily by Jewish guests, many comedians learned their trade playing the borscht circuit |
Kuiper belt
Edgeworth-Kuiper belt | a disk-shaped region of minor planets outside the orbit of Neptune |
Kuiper belt object
KBO | any of many minor planets in the Kuiper belt outside the orbit of Neptune at the edge of the solar system |
spit
tongue | a narrow strip of land that juts out into the sea |
swath
belt | a path or strip (as cut by one course of mowing) |
| belt maker | a maker of belts |
| black belt | a person who attained the rank of expert in the martial arts (judo or karate) |