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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Tongueless \Tongue"less\, adjective
1. Having no tongue.
2. Hence, speechless; mute. ''What tongueless blocks were they! would they not speak?'' --Shak.
3. Unnamed; not spoken of. [Obs.]
One good deed dying tongueless. --Shak.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
tongueless
adjective
1: lacking a tongue; "tongueless moccasins" [ant: {tongued}]
2: lacking power of speech [syn: {mute}]
3: expressed without speech; especially because words would be inappropriate or inadequate; "a mute appeal"; "a silent curse"; "best grief is tongueless"- Emily Dickinson; "the words stopped at her lips unsounded"; "unspoken grief"; "choking exasperation and wordless shame"- Thomas Wolfe [syn: {mute}, {unspoken}, {wordless}]
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