langue-de-serpent, n.f., (—s-—) (bot.) serpent’s-tongue, adder’s tongue; (geol.) serpent’s-tongue, petrified fish teeth.
languette (-ghèt), n.f., tongue, strip, valve; partition (thing shaped like a tongue); key (of musical instruments); index (of a balance).
langueur (-gheur), n.f., languidness, languor, weakness, weariness. pl., debility. Maladie de —; lingering illness; decline.
langueyer (-ghé-ié), v.a., to examine the tongue of a hog. — des valets; (fig.) to pump servants (so as to get at their masters’ secrets).
langueyeur (-ghè-ieur), n.m., examiner of hogs’ tongues.
languier (-ghiè), n.m., smoked hog’s tongue.
languir (-ghir), v.n., to languish, to linger, to pine, to pine away, to droop, to be sickly, to fade; to flag. — de misère; to languish in misery. — d’amour; to pine away for love. La conversation languit; the conversation flags. Ne nous faites pas —; don’t keep us waiting; or out with it.
languissamment (-ghi-sa-mān), adv., languishingly, droopingly, lingeringly.
languissant, -e, adj., languid, languishing, lingering, pining, drooping, sickly, fading; (com.) dull.
lanice, adj., of wool. Bourre —; flock of wool.