2 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tongueless \Tongue"less\, a.
1. Having no tongue.
2. Hence speechless; mute. ``What tongueless blocks were
they! would they not speak?'' --Shak.
3. Unnamed; not spoken of [Obs.]
One good deed dying tongueless. --Shak.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
tongueless
adj 1: lacking a tongue; "tongueless moccasins" [ant: {tongued}]
2: lacking power of speech [syn: {mute}]
3: expressed without speech; especially because words would be
inappropriate or inadequate; "a mute appeal"; "a silent
curse"; "best grief is tongueless"- Emily Dickinson; "the
words stopped at her lips unsounded"; "unspoken grief";
"choking exasperation and wordless shame"- Thomas Wolfe
[syn: {mute}, {unspoken}, {wordless}]
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