tongue

The flexible muscular organ in the mouth that is used to move food around, for tasting and that is moved into various positions to modify the flow of air from the lungs in order to produce different sounds in speech.

But lering and lurking here and there like ſpies,

Such an organ, as taken from animals and used for food (especially from cows).

cold tongue with mustard

However you eat them, tongue and chicken and new bread are very good things, and no one minds being sprinkled a little with soda-water on a really fine hot day.

Any similar organ, such as the lingual ribbon, or odontophore, of a mollusk; the proboscis of a moth or butterfly; or the lingua of an insect.

A language.

He was speaking in his native tongue.

[…] that great Towre, which is so much renownd For tongues confusion in holie writ,

The speakers of a language, collectively.

I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see my glory.

On a wind instrument, to articulate a note by starting the air with a tap of the tongue, as though by speaking a 'd' or 't' sound (alveolar plosive).

Playing wind instruments involves tonguing on the reed or mouthpiece.

To manipulate with the tongue.

[T]he cattle tongued at the damp grass, licking rather than grazing. […]

To manipulate with the tongue.

Hot I tongued her. She kissed me. I was kissed. All yielding she tossed my hair. Kissed, she kissed me.

I was tonguing her ear and serenading her in a passionate whisper, mimicking Elvis, mimicking Joey.

To protrude in relatively long, narrow sections.

a soil horizon that tongues into clay

To join by means of a tongue and groove.

to tongue boards together

A village by the Kyle of Tongue in Sutherland, Highland council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NC5956).

A surname.