Word Meanings - BASIHYOID - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The central tongue bone.

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• CENTRALLY
  In a central manner or situation.
• TONGUELET
  A little tongue.
• TONGUE-SHELL
  Any species of Lingula.
• CENTRAL; CENTRALE
  The central, or one of the central, bones of the carpus or or tarsus. In the tarsus of man it is represented by the navicular.
• CENTRALITY
  The state of being central; tendency towards a center. Meantime there is a great centrality, a centripetence equal to the centrifugence. R. W. Emerson.
• TONGUESTER
  One who uses his tongue; a talker; a story-teller; a gossip. Step by step we rose to greatness; through the tonguesters we may fall. Tennyson.
• CENTRALIZE
  To draw or bring to a center point; to gather into or about a center; to bring into one system, or under one control. centralize the power of government. Bancroft.
• CENTRAL
  Relating to the center; situated in or near the center or middle; containing the center; of or pertaining to the parts near the center; equidistant or equally accessible from certain points. Central force , a force acting upon a body towards or
• CENTRALIZATION
  The act or process of centralizing, or the state of being centralized; the act or process of combining or reducing several parts into a whole; as, the centralization of power in the general government; the centralization of commerce in a city.
• TONGUED
  Having a tongue. Tongued like the night crow. Donne.
• TONGUE-TIED
  1. Destitute of the power of distinct articulation; having an impediment in the speech, esp. when caused by a short frænum. 2. Unable to speak freely, from whatever cause. Love, therefore, and tongue-tied simplicity. Shak.
• TONGUE-PAD
  A great talker.
• TONGUE-SHAPED
  Shaped like a tongue; specifically , linear or oblong, and fleshy, blunt at the end, and convex beneath; as, a tongue-shaped leaf.
• TONGUEFISH
  A flounder native of the southern coast of the United States.
• TONGUEWORM
  Any species of Linguatulina.
• TONGUEBIRD
  The wryneck.
• CENTRALISM
  1. The state or condition of being central; the combination of several parts into one whole; centralization. 2. The system by which power is centralized, as in a government.
• TONGUE-TIE
  Impeded motion of the tongue because of the shortness of the frænum, or of the adhesion of its margins to the gums. Dunglison.
• TONGUE
  an organ situated in the floor of the mouth of most vertebrates and connected with the hyoid arch. Note: The tongue is usually muscular, mobile, and free at one extremity, and in man other mammals is the principal organ of taste, aids
• TONGUELESS
  1. Having no tongue. 2. Hence, speechless; mute. "What tongueless blocks were they! would they not speak" Shak. 3. Unnamed; not spoken of. One good deed dying tongueless. Shak.
• SERPENT-TONGUED
  Having a forked tongue, like a serpent.
• HONEY-TONGUED
  Sweet speaking; persuasive; seductive. Shak.
• SHRILL-TONGUED
  Having a shrill voice. "When shrill-tongued Fulvia scolds." Shak.
• ADDER'S-TONGUE
  A genus of ferns , whose seeds are produced on a spike resembling a serpent's tongue. The yellow dogtooth violet. Gray.
• LONG-TONGUE
  The wryneck.
• PLEASANT-TONGUED
  Of pleasing speech.
• TRUMPET-TONGUED
  Having a powerful, far-reaching voice or speech.
• NEURO-CENTRAL
  Between the neural arch and the centrum of a vertebra; as, the neurocentral suture. Huxley.
• UNICENTRAL
  Having a single center of growth. Unicentral development, that form of development which takes place primarily around a single central point, as in the lowest of unicellular organisms.
• TWO-TONGUED
  Double-tongued; deceitful. Sandys.