Tongue"-shaped` (?), a. Shaped like a tongue; specifically (Bot.),
linear or oblong, and fleshy, blunt at the end, and convex beneath; as,
a tongue-shaped leaf.
Tongue"-shell` (?), n. Any species of Lingula.
Tongue"ster (?), n. One who uses his tongue; a talker; a story-teller;
a gossip. [Poetic.]
Step by step we rose to greatness; through the tonguesters we may fall.
Tennyson.
Tongue"-tie` (?), n. (Med.) Impeded motion of the tongue because of the
shortness of the frænum, or of the adhesion of its margins to the gums.
Dunglison.
Tongue"-tie`, v. t. To deprive of speech or the power of speech, or of
distinct articulation.
Tongue"-tied` (?), a. 1. Destitute of the power of distinct
articulation; having an impediment in the speech, esp. when caused by a
short frænum.