Lang`syne" (?), adv. & n. [Scot. lang long + syne since.] Long since;
long ago. [Scot.]
Lang`ter*a*loo" (?), n. [See Loo.] An old game at cards. See Loo (a).
Tatler.
Lan"guage (?), n. [OE. langage, F. langage, fr. L. lingua the tongue,
hence speech, language; akin to E. tongue. See Tongue, cf. Lingual.]
1. Any means of conveying or communicating ideas; specifically, human
speech; the expression of ideas by the voice; sounds, expressive of
thought, articulated by the organs of the throat and mouth.
Language consists in the oral utterance of sounds which usage has made
the representatives of ideas. When two or more persons customarily
annex the same sounds to the same ideas, the expression of these sounds
by one person communicates his ideas to another. This is the primary
sense of language, the use of which is to communicate the thoughts of
one person to another through the organs of hearing. Articulate sounds
are represented to the eye by letters, marks, or characters, which form
words.