tung

noun

1. (alt-of, obsolete)Obsolete spelling of tongue, both as language and as part of the body.

   “I am of this opinion that our own tung shold be written cleane and pure, unmixt and unmangeled with borowing of other tunges, …”

   “… ever exposed to their envy, and the tung of slander …”

   “Our common orthography is incorrect; the true spelling is tung.”

   “… words to be spoken with the understanding, that I may teach others also, than myriads of words, in a tung. ... In the law, it hath been written, That, with other tungs and other lips I will speak to this people, and then they will not hear ...”

   “If they've got anything to say which they want you to hear, let 'em say it out; if not, hold their tungs.”

2. A tung tree.

name

1. Synonym of Lincoln Island.

   “A U.S. military plane intruded into China's air space over the area of Tung Island of the Hsisha Islands in Kwangtung Province between 16:00 hours and 16:03 hours on February 9. A spokesman of the Chinese Foreign Ministry has been authorised, in relation to this military provocation by the U.S. military plane, to issue the 482nd serious warning.”

   ““From 1840 hours on March 18, 1972 to 0935 hours on March 20, 1972, one U.S. warship, the George K. MacKenzie intruded into Chinese territorial waters near Tung Island, 16°, 14', 6” north, 112°, 43', 48” east, off the Hsi Sha Islands, Kwantung^([sic – meaning Kwangtung]) Province, China.”

   “Every island in Hsisha is a veritable treasure island. The Tung Island is the home of large flocks of boobies. As these birds feed on fish, the fishermen are sure to get to the site of large shoals by following the direction of their flight.”

   “According to Japanese sources, Peking has maintained some sort of naval bases on Woody (Yung-hsing) Island and Lincoln (Tung) Island in the eastern Paracels since at least 1958. Several patrol vessels and supply ships were sighted there in mid-1971, along with shore-based radar installations; and the flotilla that clashed with the Vietnamese in 1974 numbered seven ships, including Komar-class gunboats equipped with Styx missiles.”