"lay one's tongue to" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "lays one's tongue to",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "laying one's tongue to",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "laid one's tongue to",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "laid one's tongue to",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "lay<,,laid> one's tongue to"
      },
      "expansion": "lay one's tongue to (third-person singular simple present lays one's tongue to, present participle laying one's tongue to, simple past and past participle laid one's tongue to)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1888, Charlotte Riddell, “The Last of Squire Ennismore”, in David Marcus, editor, The Poolbeg Book of Irish Ghost Stories, Dublin: Poolbeg, published 1990, page 255",
          "text": "He was a terrible man. You couldn’t lay your tongue to a wickedness he had not been in the forefront of—drinking, duelling, gambling,—all manner of sins had been meat and drink to him since he was a boy almost.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1953, Shirley Barker, chapter 9, in Fire and the Hammer,, New York: Crown",
          "text": "Now it’s none of my business […] to try to make a man’s mind up for him between two girls. His politics I’ll lecture him on while my breath lasts, but the other thing I won’t lay my tongue to.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Say; name; think of to say."
      ],
      "id": "en-lay_one's_tongue_to-en-verb-DJ1TQo6p",
      "links": [
        [
          "Say",
          "say"
        ],
        [
          "name",
          "name"
        ],
        [
          "think of",
          "think of"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "lay one's tongue to"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "lays one's tongue to",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "laying one's tongue to",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "laid one's tongue to",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "laid one's tongue to",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "lay<,,laid> one's tongue to"
      },
      "expansion": "lay one's tongue to (third-person singular simple present lays one's tongue to, present participle laying one's tongue to, simple past and past participle laid one's tongue to)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1888, Charlotte Riddell, “The Last of Squire Ennismore”, in David Marcus, editor, The Poolbeg Book of Irish Ghost Stories, Dublin: Poolbeg, published 1990, page 255",
          "text": "He was a terrible man. You couldn’t lay your tongue to a wickedness he had not been in the forefront of—drinking, duelling, gambling,—all manner of sins had been meat and drink to him since he was a boy almost.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1953, Shirley Barker, chapter 9, in Fire and the Hammer,, New York: Crown",
          "text": "Now it’s none of my business […] to try to make a man’s mind up for him between two girls. His politics I’ll lecture him on while my breath lasts, but the other thing I won’t lay my tongue to.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Say; name; think of to say."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Say",
          "say"
        ],
        [
          "name",
          "name"
        ],
        [
          "think of",
          "think of"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "lay one's tongue to"
}