_1. Language generally_
#560. Language.—N. language; phraseology &c. 569; speech &c. 582;
tongue, lingo, vernacular; mother tongue, vulgar tongue, native tongue;
household words; King's English, Queen's English; dialect &c. 563.
confusion of tongues, Babel, pasigraphie[obs3]; pantomime &c. (signs)
550; onomatopoeia; betacism[obs3], mimmation, myatism[obs3],
nunnation[obs3]; pasigraphy[obs3]. lexicology, philology,
glossology[obs3], glottology[obs3]; linguistics, chrestomathy[obs3];
paleology[obs3], paleography; comparative grammar. literature, letters,
polite literature, belles lettres[Fr], muses, humanities, literae
humaniores[Lat], republic of letters, dead languages, classics; genius
of language; scholarship &c. (scholar) 492. V. express by words &c.