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TONGUE, a parish of Scotland, in Sutherland; 11 
miles long, and nearly of the same breadth. Population 
1493. 
TONGUE, s. [cung, Saxon; tonghe, Dutch; from 
dingen; Wachter notices an assertion that the Latin 
lingua, was anciently dingua. Others cite the Gr. cpdoyyo;, 
a voice, a sound, from (pdeyyoy.cu, to speak.'] The instru¬ 
ment of speech in human beings. 
My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, * 
And ev’ry tongue brings in a sev’ral tale. 
And ev’ry tale condemns me for a villain. Shalcspeare. 
The organ by which animals lick. 
They hiss for hiss return’d with forked tongue 
To forked tongue. Milton. 
Speech; fluency of words. ^ 
First in the council-hall to steer the state, 
And ever foremost in a tongue debate. Drydeiv 
Power of articulate utterance. 
Parrots, imitating human tongue. 
And singing birds in silver cages hung. Dry den. 
Speech, as well or ill used.—Give me thy hand ; I am 
sorry I beat thee: but, while thou liv’st, keep a good 
tongue in thy head. Shakspeare. —A language. 
With wondrous gifts endu’d. 
To speak all tongues and do all miracles. Milton. 
Speech as opposed to thoughts or action.—Let us not 
love in word, neither in tongue, but in deed and in truth. 
1 John. —A nation distinguished by their language. A 
scriptural term .—Every kindred, and tongue, and people, 
and nation. Rev .—A bay. [tang, Swed.j The Lord shall 
destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea. Isaiah. —A small 
point: as, the tongue of a balance.— To hold the Tongue. 
To be silent. 
’Tis seldom seen that senators so young 
Know when to speak, and when to hold their tongue. 
Dry den. 
To TONGUE, v. a. To chide; to scold. 
But that her tender shame 
Will not proclaim against her maiden loss, 
How might she tongue me. Shakspeare. 
To strike a wind instrument with the tongue. 
To TONGUE, v. n. To talk ; to prate. 
'Tis still a dream ; or else such stuff, as madmen 
Tongue, and brain not. Shakspeare. 
TO'NGUED, adj. Having a tongue.— Tongu'd like the 
night crow. Donne. 
TO'NGUELESS, adj. Wanting a tongue; speechless. 
—What tongueless blocks, would they not speak ? Shak¬ 
speare. —Unnamed; not spoken of. 
One good deed, dying tongueless, 
Slaughters a thousand waiting upon that. Shakspeare. 
TO'NGUEPAD, s. A great talker.—She who was a 
celebrated wit at London, is, in that dull part of the world, 
called a tonguepad. Tatler. 
TONGUE RIVER, a river of North America, which, after 
a course of about 500 miles, falls into the Yellowstone. 
TONGUETHWAITE, a hamlet of England, in the parish 
of Westward, Cumberland. 
To TO'NGUETIE, v. a. To render unable to speak.— 
That extreme modesty, and bashfulness, which ordinarily 
tongueties us in all good company. Goodman. 
TO'NGUETIED, adj. Having an impediment of speech. 
—They who have short tongues, or are tonguetied, are apt 
to fall short of the appulse of the tongue to the teeth, and 
oftener place it on the gums, and say t. and d instead of tli 
and dh ; as moder for mother. Holder. —Unable to speak 
freely from whatever cause. 
Love, and tonguety'd simplicity, 
In least speak most to my capacity. Shakspeare. 
TONIATA, a small island of the St. Lawrence. Lat. 44. 
30. N. long. 75. 53. W. 
TONIBAI, a port of Mexico, in the province of Sonora, 
very dangerous, and of difficult access. 
TO'NIC, or To'nical, adj. [foniquc, Fr.; t enu, Gr.] 
Being extended ; being elastic; relating to tones or sounds. 
—To the judicious performance upon this solemn instru¬ 
ment, [the organ,] my observations now naturally recur. 
In point of tonic power, I presume it will be allowed 
preferable to all others. Mason.—A term not at present 
used. 
TO'NICS, s. Medicines to strengthen the tone. 
TONIC [r ovikos, Gr., formed from reiveiv, to stretch], in 
Medicine, is applied to a certain motion of the muscles, in 
which the fibres being extended, continue their extension to a 
certain degree. It is also applied to such medicines as were 
supposed to produce this tonic state. 
TONIKAKY, an island in the Eastern seas, near the 
north coast of Celebes. Lat. 5. 31. N. long. 99. 31. E. 
TONISKA, a village of Irkoutsk, in Asiatic Russia; 40 
miles east-south-east of Stretensk. 
TONK RAMPOORA, a town of HindostaU, province of 
Ajmeer, formerly belonging to the Mahratta chief JesWunt 
Row Holkar. Lat. 26.12. N. long. 75. 3S. E. 
TONNA. See Graff.ntouna. 
TONNANCOUR, or Point du Lac, a seigniory of 
Lower Canada, in the county of St. Maurice, with Lake St. 
Peter, and the St. Lawrence in front. 
TO'NNAGE, s. A custom or impost due for merchan¬ 
dise brought or carried in tons from or to other nations, after 
a certain rate in every ton. Coivel. 
TONNAY BOUTONNE, a small town in the west of 
France, department of the Lower Charente, situated on the 
small river Boutonne. Population 900; 9 miles west of St. 
Jean d’Angely. 
TONNAY CHARENTE, a small town in the west of 
France, department of the Lower Charente, situated on the 
right bank of the river of that name; 4 miles east of Roche¬ 
fort. 
TONNEINS, a considerable town in the south-west of 
France, department of the Lot and Garonne, situated on the 
Garonne, and containing upwards of 6000 inhabitants; 55 
miles south-east of Bourdeaux. 
TONNERRE, Mont, a great mountain in the west of 
Germany, on the left bank of the Rhine; 10 miles from 
Worms, and 25 from Mentz. It is nearly 2300 feet above 
the level of the Rhiue, and has, about halfway up its side, a 
village called Donnersfield. 
TONNERRE, a town in the central part of France, de¬ 
partment of the Yonne, situated on the Armencon. It is still 
surrounded with a rampart, and has a population of 4400; 
20 miles east-by-north of Auxerre. 
TONNEWANTA, a river of the United S*ates, in New 
York, which runs west, and enters Niagara river, opposite 
Grand island ; 10 miles uorlh of Black Rock. It is 90 miles 
long, and is navigable for boats 30 miles. 
TONN1NGEN, a small town of Denmark, in Sleswick, 
near the mouth of the Eyder. It contains only 2000 inha¬ 
bitants, but has become, since the termination of the canal of 
Kiel, a place of uncommon activity, being the harbour where 
all vessels stop at the western extremity, as Kiel at the 
eastern; 46 miles east-by-north of Heligoland, and 30 west- 
south-west of Sleswick. Lat. 54. 19. 25. N. long. 8. 48. 
45. E. 
TONNOMAIA, one of the smaller Friendly Islands; 11 
miles south of Annamooka. 
TONORA, a small river of the Caraccas, which runs east, 
and enters the Guanipa. 
TONORIUM, the Roman orators, though not constantly 
accompanied by a flute, had their voices frequently regulated 
by an instrument which Quinctilian calls a tonorium, Cicero, 
a Jis/u/a, and Plutarch, trvptfyiov, or syrinx, which is the 
same thing ; and this instrument served as a kind of pitch- 
pipe. Both Cicero (De Orat. lib. iii), and Plutarch (In 
Vit. C. Gracch.), relate the well-known story of the voice 
of the furious tribune, Caius Gracchus, being brought down 
to its natural pitch, after he had lost it in a transport of 
passion, by means of a servant placed behind him with one 
