from someone who obviously uses his a lot. lexiconophile....
delightful Lawrence.
Doug
On 2011-03-11, at 9:55 AM, Lawrence Upton wrote:
> the quick swinging hammer inside a bell;
> the tongue of an animal; a language or
> dialect; a strip that protrudes along the edge
> of a wooden board; somebody’s talking manner;
> something shaped or moving to touch or lick;
> to kiss another with the lips open;
> the middle flap in the opening of a boot
> or shoe; a narrow strip of land sticking
> into sea, or lake, or river; to use the tongue
> to block the flow of air on wind or brass
> instruments, keeping one note from another
> and the tongue touching the inside of the other
> person’s mouth; the power of speech; fleshy;
> the vibrating end of a reed in a wind instrument;
> the pivoting pin in buckles used to taste,
> licking, swallowing, that hits against the bell,
> inside, to make the sound, to make one half
> of a tongue-and-groove joint of most humans;
> the pole at the front of carriages, to which
> the harnesses are attached, which is designed
> to fit into a corresponding groove
>
>
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> Lawrence Upton
> AHRC Creative Research Fellow
> Dept of Music
> Goldsmiths, University of London
>
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