Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One that functions or is shaped like a tongue.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Something in the shape of a little tongue.
- noun Specifically— A thin slip or tongue of metal placed to preserve the necessary space between the two blades of a comb-cutters, saw, the strip being of the thickness of the teeth required in the comb. Also called
languid. E. H. Knight . - noun On a sword-hilt, a small hinged piece of metal which turns down over the scabbard. Also called
linguet . - noun In music, same as
languette , 2. - noun In zoology, one of the series of little tongue-like or tentaculiform processes on a longitudinal ridge along the middle line of the pharyngeal cavity or branchial sac of an ascidiau.
- noun In entomology, same as
languette , 3 .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Anything resembling the tongue in form or office; specif., the slip of metal in an organ pipe which turns the current of air toward its mouth.
- noun That part of the hilt, in certain kinds of swords, which overlaps the scabbard.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a
tongue -shaped implement, specifically: - noun archaic a narrow
tongue of land - noun zoology a
tongue -like organ found on certaintunicates
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The swords have a simple crossguard and most have a languet, a short central extension towards the blade that fits over the scabbard when sheathed.
Archive 2009-08-01 legatus hedlius 2009
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The swords have a simple crossguard and most have a languet, a short central extension towards the blade that fits over the scabbard when sheathed.
Sudanese Kaskara Swords legatus hedlius 2009
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She awoke to the dulcetptwee-ptwerr of the iridescent-wingedsila languet, one of the most euphonious of all the inhabitants of New Riviera's takari forests.
Flinx's Folly Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2003
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In addition to the arresting song of the sila languet, the crescendoingmutter-mutter of colusai climbers filtered in from outside.
Flinx's Folly Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2003
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Post ejus interitum omnis nostra juventus languet, deliciis plus dedita quàm deceret: nec perinde, ac debuerat, in laudis et gloriae cupiditate versatur.
The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 3 William Hickling Prescott 1827
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Non iUis geneiis nexus, noti pignora curat Sed numero languet pietas,
De veritate religionis christianæ Hugo Grotius, Jean Le Clerc, 1657-1736 1772
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Ναι ■ vides, fi antmus languet, que nomiue iimplex τ lcnDendum videtur.
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***** hic summa leni stringitur Thetis vento: nec languet aequor, viva sed quies ponti pictam phaselon adiuvante fert aura, sicut puellae lion amantis aestatem mota salubre purpura venit frigus. nec saeta longo quaerit in mari praedam, sed a cubili lectuloque iactatam spectatus alte lineam trahit piscis.
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914
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