Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Tonguing"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Tonguing \Tongu"ing\, vb. n. (Music)
Modification of tone for a rapid staccato effect by the
performer's tongue, in playing a wind instrument, as a flute.
In {single tonguing} only one kind of stroke is used, the
tongue articulating a rapid ``t;'' in {double tonguing}, two
strokes, as for ``t'' and ``k,'' are alternated; in {triple
tonguing}, ``t, k, t,'' etc.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Tongue \Tongue\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Tongued}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Tonguing}.]
1. To speak; to utter. ``Such stuff as madmen tongue.''
--Shak.
2. To chide; to scold.
How might she tongue me. --Shak.
3. (Mus.) To modulate or modify with the tongue, as notes, in
playing the flute and some other wind instruments.
4. To join means of a tongue and grove; as, to tongue boards
together.
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