3. The forms of speech, or the methods of expressing ideas, peculiar to
a particular nation.
4. The characteristic mode of arranging words, peculiar to an
individual speaker or writer; manner of expression; style.
Others for language all their care express.
Pope.
5. The inarticulate sounds by which animals inferior to man express
their feelings or their wants.
6. The suggestion, by objects, actions, or conditions, of ideas
associated therewith; as, the language of flowers.
There was . . . language in their very gesture.
Shak.
7. The vocabulary and phraseology belonging to an art or department of
knowledge; as, medical language; the language of chemistry or theology.