a. (ppl. a.) [f. TONGUE sb. or v. + -ED.] Having or furnished with a tongue or tongues (in various senses). Also fig.
Also in numerous parasynthetic combs., as double-tongued, true-tongued, etc., for which see the first element.
c. 1369. Chaucer, Blaunche, 927. Ne trewer tonged, ne scorned lasse.
1390. Gower, Conf., I. 218. This false tunged Perseus.
1413. Pilgr. Sowle (Caxton, 1483), III. iii. 51. Somme were by the eyen hanged with hookes, and som by the tonges, whiche as me semyd were tonged double.
1611. L. Barry, Ram Alley, IV. i. G ij. Nosd like a Goose, and toungd like a woman.
1635. A. Stafford, Fem. Glory (1860), 185. Were all … the Starres of Heaven tongued, they could not all expresse thee so well, as a silent Extasie.
1666. J. Davies, Hist. Caribby Isles, 55. Two kinds of Tobacco Plants, commonly call’d … Green-Tobacco and Tongu’d Tobacco, from the figure of its leaf.
1839. Ure, Dict. Arts, 966. The boring tools are … 16. The tongued chisel.
a. 1847. Eliza Cook, Silence, 108. The soul … Shall keep an eloquence all, all her own, And mock the tongued interpreter.
1854. Bushnan, in Circ. Sc. (c. 1865), I. 284/1. Reeded and tongued instruments.
1884. Northern Echo, 11 Aug., 2/5. 24,000 Feet of Grooved and Tongued Flooring Boards.
1886. Archæol. Cantiana, XVI. p. xlv. The tongued or leaf-like ornament, so common in the period of Transition between pure Norman and pure Early English.
