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Languet vs Langued - What's the difference?

languet | langued |

As a noun languet

is a tongue-shaped implement, specifically.

As an adjective langued is

having the tongue visible.

languet

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A tongue-shaped implement, specifically:
  • # A narrow blade on the edge of a spade or shovel.
  • # A piece of metal on a sword-hilt which overhangs the scabbard.
  • # A flat plate in (or opposite and below the mouth of) the pipe of an organ.
  • 1973 , Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow :
  • If there is music for this it’s windy strings and reed sections standing in bright shirt fronts and black ties all along the beach, a robed organist by the breakwater—itself broken, crusted with tides—whose languets and flues gather and shape the resident spooks here.
  • (archaic) A narrow tongue of land.
  • (zoology) A tongue-like organ found on certain tunicates.

    • Synonyms

    * (flat plate in an organ) language, languid ----

    langued

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (heraldry) Having the tongue visible.
  • * 1663 , (Hudibras) , by Samuel Butler, part 1,
  • *:[...] Armed, as heralds cant, and langued , / Or, as the vulgar say, sharp-fanged; [...]
  • * Cussans
    • Lions represented as armed and langued gules.