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Definition of Tungs
1. tung [n] - See also: tung
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tungs
Literary usage of Tungs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of the Lands and Their Owners in Galloway: With Historical Sketches by Peter Handyside M'Kerlie (1906)
"... and Meikle and Little tungs, 9th January, 1776, on a precept granted by the
Sheriff, Sir Stair Agnew. John Vans and Margaret Agnew had issue— Robert ..."
2. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"... that regard of blame, To tempt the living God they think it no offence, And
perce the symple with their tungs that can make no defence. ..."
3. The Gentleman's Magazine (1813)
"... yet small in Of fower tungs Iho flowers ... And were wee giuen as well to like
our °<™e, [weede It would pricke neere the learned tungs ..."
4. Lectures on the English Language by George Perkins Marsh (1887)
"And to saie the truth what reason is it, to be acquainted abrode and a stranger
at home ? to know foren tungs by rule, and our own but by rote ? ..."
5. Origin, Progress and Destiny of the English Language and Literature by John Adam Weisse (1879)
"And to sale the truth what reason it is, to be acquainted abrode and a stranger
at home? to know foren tungs by rule, and our own by rote. ..."
6. The Popular and Critical Bible Encyclopædia and Scriptural Dictionary, Fully by Samuel Fallows, Andrew Constantinides Zenos, Herbert Lockwood Willett (1910)
"By this means the presence of the Spirit manifested itself to the people there
assembled. (See PENTECOST.) TONGUES OF FIRE (tungs 6v ftr). ..."
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