Part 716

Perhaps thou linger'st, in deep thoughts detained.

Milton.

Syn. -- To loiter; lag; saunter; delay; tarry; stop; hesitate.

Lin"ger, v. t. 1. To protract; to draw out. [Obs.]

She lingers my desires.

Shak.

2. To spend or pass in a lingering manner; -- with out; as, to linger out one's days on a sick bed. Dryden.

Lin"ger*er (-r), n. One who lingers. Guardian.

Lin"ger*ing, a. 1. Delaying.

2. Drawn out in time; remaining long; protracted; as, a lingering disease.

To die is the fate of man; but to die with lingering anguish is generally his folly.

Rambler.

Lin"ger*ing*ly, adv. With delay; slowly; tediously.

Lin"get (l"gt), n. [F. lingot, perh. fr. L. lingua tongue (see Tongue). Cf. Ingot.] An ingot. [Written also lingot.]

Ling"ism (lng"z'm), n. A mode of treating certain diseases, as obesity, by gymnastics; -- proposed by Pehr Henrik Ling, a Swede. See Kinesiatrics.

Lin"gle (l"g'l), n. See Lingel.

Lin"go (l"g), n. [L. lingua tongue, language. See Lingual.] Language; speech; dialect. [Slang]

Lin*go"a wood` (l*g" wd`). Amboyna wood.

Lin"got (l"gt), n. A linget or ingot; also, a mold for casting metals. See Linget.

||Lin"gua (l"gw), n.; pl. Linguæ (- gw). [L., the tongue.] (Zoöl.) (a) ||A tongue. (b) A median process of the labium, at the under side of ||the mouth in insects, and serving as a tongue. || Lin*gua"cious (l*gw"shs), a. [L. linguax, -acis, loquacious, fr. lingua tongue.] Given to the use of the tongue; loquacious. [Obs.]

Lin`gua*den"tal (l`gw*dn"tal), a. [L. lingua tongue + E. dental.] (Phonetics) Formed or uttered by the joint use of the tongue and teeth, or rather that part of the gum just above the front teeth; dentolingual, as the letters d and t.

Lin`gua*den"tal, n. (Phonetics) An articulation pronounced by the aid or use of the tongue and teeth.

Lin"gua Fran"ca (l"gw fr"k). [It., prop., language of the Franks.] The commercial language of the Levant, -- a mixture of the languages of the people of the region and of foreign traders.

Lin"gual (l"gwal), a. [L. lingua tongue: cf. F. lingual. See Tongue, and cf. Language.] Of or pertaining to the tongue; uttered by the aid of the tongue; glossal; as, the lingual nerves; a lingual letter.

Lingual ribbon. (Zoöl.) See Odontophore.

Lin"gual, n. A consonant sound formed by the aid of the tongue; -- a term especially applied to certain articulations (as those of t, d, th, and n) and to the letters denoting them.

In Sanskrit grammar certain letters, as , h, , h, , are called linguals, cerebrals, or cacuminals. They are uttered with the tip of the tongue turned up and drawn back into the dome of the palate.

Lin*gual"i*ty (l*gwl"*t), n. The quality of being lingual.