Word Meanings - CLOSE-TONGUED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Closemouthed; silent. "Close-tongued treason." Shak.

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• TONGUELET
  A little tongue.
• CLOSEHANDED
  Covetous; penurious; stingy; closefisted. -- Close"hand`ed*ness, n.
• TONGUE-SHELL
  Any species of Lingula.
• CLOSEFISTED
  Covetous; niggardly. Bp. Berkeley. "Closefisted contractors." Hawthorne.
• TONGUESTER
  One who uses his tongue; a talker; a story-teller; a gossip. Step by step we rose to greatness; through the tonguesters we may fall. Tennyson.
• TREASONABLE
  Pertaining to treason; consisting of treason; involving the crime of treason, or partaking of its guilt. Most men's heads had been intoxicated with imaginations of plots and treasonable practices. Clarendon. Syn. -- Treacherous; traitorous;
• CLOSEN
  To make close.
• CLOSER
  The last stone in a horizontal course, if of a less size than the others, or a piece of brick finishing a course. Gwilt. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, closes; specifically, a boot closer. See under Boot. 2. A finisher; that which finishes
• CLOSE-FIGHTS
  Barriers with loopholes, formerly erected on the deck of a vessel to shelter the men in a close engagement with an enemy's boarders; -- called also close quarters.
• TONGUED
  Having a tongue. Tongued like the night crow. Donne.
• TONGUE-TIED
  1. Destitute of the power of distinct articulation; having an impediment in the speech, esp. when caused by a short frænum. 2. Unable to speak freely, from whatever cause. Love, therefore, and tongue-tied simplicity. Shak.
• CLOSEHAULED
  Under way and moving as nearly as possible toward the direction from which the wind blows; -- said of a sailing vessel.
• SILENTIARY
  One appointed to keep silence and order in court; also, one sworn not to divulge secre
• TONGUE-PAD
  A great talker.
• CLOSE-BODIED
  Fitting the body exactly; setting close, as a garment. Ayliffe.
• TONGUE-SHAPED
  Shaped like a tongue; specifically , linear or oblong, and fleshy, blunt at the end, and convex beneath; as, a tongue-shaped leaf.
• SILENT
  Not pronounced; having no sound; quiescent; as, e is silent in "fable." 5. Having no effect; not operating; inefficient. Cause . . . silent, virtueless, and dead. Sir W. Raleigh. Silent partner. See Dormant partner, under Dormant. Syn. -- Mute;
• CLOSE
  to G. schliessen to shut, and to E. clot, cloister, clavicle, 1. To stop, or fill up, as an opening; to shut; as, to close the eyes; to close a door. 2. To bring together the parts of; to consolidate; as, to close the ranks of an army; -- often
• CLOSET
  1. A small room or apartment for retirement; a room for privacy. A chair-lumbered closet, just twelve feet by nine. Goldsmith. When thou prayest, enter into thy closet. Matt. vi. 6. 2. A small apartment, or recess in the side of a room,
• TONGUEFISH
  A flounder native of the southern coast of the United States.
• SERPENT-TONGUED
  Having a forked tongue, like a serpent.
• UNCLOSE
  1. To open; to separate the parts of; as, to unclose a letter; to unclose one's eyes. 2. To disclose; to lay open; to reveal.
• ENCLOSE
  To inclose. See Inclose.
• PARCLOSE
  A screen separating a chapel from the body of the church. Hook.
• HONEY-TONGUED
  Sweet speaking; persuasive; seductive. Shak.
• SHRILL-TONGUED
  Having a shrill voice. "When shrill-tongued Fulvia scolds." Shak.
• ADDER'S-TONGUE
  A genus of ferns , whose seeds are produced on a spike resembling a serpent's tongue. The yellow dogtooth violet. Gray.
• INCLOSER
  One who, or that which, incloses; one who fences off land from common grounds.
• LONG-TONGUE
  The wryneck.
• PLEASANT-TONGUED
  Of pleasing speech.
• TRUMPET-TONGUED
  Having a powerful, far-reaching voice or speech.
• TWO-TONGUED
  Double-tongued; deceitful. Sandys.
• DOUBLE-TONGUING
  A peculiar action of the tongue by flute players in articulating staccato notes; also, the rapid repetition of notes in cornet playing.
• PERCLOSE
  See RALEIGH