She lingers my desires.
Shak.
2. To spend or pass in a lingering manner; -- with out; as, to linger
out one's days on a sick bed. Dryden.
Lin"ger*er (-r), n. One who lingers. Guardian.
Lin"ger*ing, a. 1. Delaying.
2. Drawn out in time; remaining long; protracted; as, a lingering
disease.
To die is the fate of man; but to die with lingering anguish is
generally his folly.
Rambler.
Lin"ger*ing*ly, adv. With delay; slowly; tediously.
Lin"get (l"gt), n. [F. lingot, perh. fr. L. lingua tongue (see Tongue).
Cf. Ingot.] An ingot. [Written also lingot.]
Ling"ism (lng"z'm), n. A mode of treating certain diseases, as obesity,
by gymnastics; -- proposed by Pehr Henrik Ling, a Swede. See
Kinesiatrics.
Lin"gle (l"g'l), n. See Lingel.
Lin"go (l"g), n. [L. lingua tongue, language. See Lingual.] Language;
speech; dialect. [Slang]
Lin*go"a wood` (l*g" wd`). Amboyna wood.
Lin"got (l"gt), n. A linget or ingot; also, a mold for casting metals.
See Linget.
||Lin"gua (l"gw), n.; pl. Linguæ (- gw). [L., the tongue.] (Zoöl.) (a)
||A tongue. (b) A median process of the labium, at the under side of
||the mouth in insects, and serving as a tongue.
||
Lin*gua"cious (l*gw"shs), a. [L. linguax, -acis, loquacious, fr. lingua
tongue.] Given to the use of the tongue; loquacious. [Obs.]
Lin`gua*den"tal (l`gw*dn"tal), a. [L. lingua tongue + E. dental.]
(Phonetics) Formed or uttered by the joint use of the tongue and teeth,
or rather that part of the gum just above the front teeth;
dentolingual, as the letters d and t.
Lin`gua*den"tal, n. (Phonetics) An articulation pronounced by the aid
or use of the tongue and teeth.
Lin"gua Fran"ca (l"gw fr"k). [It., prop., language of the Franks.] The
commercial language of the Levant, -- a mixture of the languages of the
people of the region and of foreign traders.
Lin"gual (l"gwal), a. [L. lingua tongue: cf. F. lingual. See Tongue,
and cf. Language.] Of or pertaining to the tongue; uttered by the aid
of the tongue; glossal; as, the lingual nerves; a lingual letter.
Lingual ribbon. (Zoöl.) See Odontophore.
Lin"gual, n. A consonant sound formed by the aid of the tongue; -- a
term especially applied to certain articulations (as those of t, d, th,
and n) and to the letters denoting them.
In Sanskrit grammar certain letters, as , h, , h, , are called
linguals, cerebrals, or cacuminals. They are uttered with the tip of
the tongue turned up and drawn back into the dome of the palate.
Lin*gual"i*ty (l*gwl"*t), n. The quality of being lingual.
||Lin`gua*tu"li*da (l`gw*t"l*d), n. pl. [NL., fr. L. lingua tongue.]
||(Zoöl.) Same as Linguatulina.
||
||Lin*guat`u*li"na (l*gwt`*l"n), n. pl. [NL., fr. L. lingua tongue.]
||(Zoöl.) An order of wormlike, degraded, parasitic arachnids. They
||have two pairs of retractile hooks, near the mouth. Called also
||Pentastomida.
||
The adults of some species inhabit the nostrils and nasal sinuses of
dogs and other carnivores. The young, after being swallowed by sheep,
rabbits, etc., find their way to the lungs and liver and become
encysted. These, when eaten by carnivores, develop into the adult
forms.
Lin`gui*den"tal (l`gw*dn"tal), a. & n. Linguadental.
Lin"gui*form (l"gw*fôrm), a. [L. lingua tongue + -form: cf. F.
linguiforme.] Having the form of the tongue; tongue- shaped.
Lin"guist (l"gwst), n. [L. lingua tongue, speech, language: cf. F.
linguiste.] 1. A master of the use of language; a talker. [Obs.]
I'll dispute with him; He's a rare linguist.
J. Webster.