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<p><b>6.</b> <def>The suggestion, by objects, actions, or conditions, of ideas associated therewith; <as>as, the <ex>language</ex> of flowers</as>.</def>

<blockquote>There was . . . <b>language</b> in their very gesture. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>7.</b> <def>The vocabulary and phraseology belonging to an art or department of knowledge; <as>as, medical <ex>language</ex>; the <ex>language</ex> of chemistry or theology.</as></def>

<p><b>8.</b> <def>A race, as distinguished by its speech.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<blockquote>All the people, the nations, and the <b>languages</b>, fell down and worshiped the golden image. <i>Dan. iii. 7.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>Language master</col>, <cd>a teacher of languages.<mark>[Obs.]</mark></cd></cs>

<syn>Syn. -- Speech; tongue; idiom; dialect; phraseology; diction; discourse; conversation; talk.</syn> <usage> -- <er>Language</er>, <er>Speech</er>, <er>Tongue</er>, <er>Idiom</er>, <er>Dialect</er>. <i>Language</i> is generic, denoting, in its most extended use, any mode of conveying ideas; <i>speech</i> is the language of articulate sounds; <i>tongue</i> is the Anglo-Saxon tern for language, esp. for spoken language; as, the English <i>tongue</i>. <i>Idiom</i> denotes the forms of construction peculiar to a particular language; <i>dialects</i> are varieties if expression which spring up in different parts of a country among people speaking substantially the same <i>language</i>.</usage>

<h1>Language</h1> <Xpage=828>

<hw>Lan"guage</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Languaged</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Languaging</er> <tt>(?)</tt>.]</wordforms> <def>To communicate by language; to express in language.</def>

<blockquote>Others were <b>languaged</b> in such doubtful expressions that they have a double sense. <i>Fuller.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Languaged</h1> <Xpage=828>

<hw>Lan"guaged</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Having a language; skilled in language; -- chiefly used in composition.</def> " Many<i>languaged</i> nations."

<i>Pope.</i>

<h1>Languageless</h1> <Xpage=828>

<hw>Lan"guage*less</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Lacking or wanting language; speechless; silent.</def>

<i>Shak.</i>

<h1>Langued</h1> <Xpage=828>

<hw>Langued</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>langue</ets> tongue. See <er>Language</er>.]</ety> <fld>(Her.)</fld> <def>Tongued; having the tongue visible.</def>

<blockquote>Lions . . . represented as armed and <b>langued</b> gules. <i>Cussans.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Langue d'oc</h1> <Xpage=828>

<hw>Langue` d'oc"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>. <ety>[F., language of <ets>oc</ets> yes.]</ety> <def>The dialect, closely akin to French, formerly spoken south of the Loire (in which the word for "yes" was <i>oc</i>); Provencal.</def>

<h1>Langue d'o\'8bl</h1> <Xpage=828>

<hw>Langue` d'o\'8bl"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>. <ety>[F., language of <ets>o\'8bl</ets> yes.]</ety> <def>The dialect formerly spoken north of the Loire (in which the word for "yes" was <i>o\'8bl</i>, F. <i>oui</i>).</def>

<h1>Languente</h1> <Xpage=828>

<hw>Lan*guen"te</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>adv.</tt> <ety>[It., p. pr. of <ets>languire</ets>. See <er>Languish</er>.]</ety> <fld>(Mus.)</fld> <def>In a languishing manner; pathetically.</def>

<h1>Languet</h1> <Xpage=828>

<hw>Lan"guet</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>languette</ets>, dim. of <ets>langue</ets> tongue, L. <ets>lingua</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Anything resembling the tongue in form or office; specif., the slip of metal in an organ pipe which turns the current of air toward its mouth.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>That part of the hilt, in certain kinds of swords, which overlaps the scabbard.</def>