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Long
LONG, a. [L. longus.]
1. Extended; drawn out in a line, or in the direction of length; opposed to short, and contradistinguished from broad or wide. Long is a relative term; for a thing may be long in respect to one thing, and short with respect to another. We apply long to things greatly extended, and to things which exceed the common measure. we say, a long way, a long distance, a long line, and long hair, long arms. By the latter terms, we mean hair and arms exceeding the usual length.
2. Drawn out or extended in time; as a long time; a long period of time; a long while; a long series of events; a long sickness or confinement; a long session; a long debate.
3. Extended to any certain measure expressed; as a span long; a yard long; a mile long, that is, extended to the measure of a mile, etc.
4. Dilatory; continuing for an extended time.
5. Tedious; continued to a great length.
A tale should never be too long.
6. Continued in a series to a great extent; as a long succession of princes; a long line of ancestors.
7. Continued in sound; protracted; as a long note; a long syllable.
8. Continued; lingering or longing.
Praying for him, and casting a long look that way, he saw the galley leave the pursuit.
9. Extensive; extending far in prospect or into futurity.
The perennial existence of bodies corporate and their fortunes, are things particularly suited to a man who has long views.
Long home, the grave or death. Eccl 41.
LONG, n. Formerly, a musical note equal to two breves. Obs.
LONG, adv.
1. To a great extent in space; as a long extended line.
2. To a great extent in time; as, they that tarry long at the wine. Prov 23.
When the trumpet soundeth long. Exo 19.
So in composition we say, long-expected, long-forgot.
3. At a point of duration far distant, either prior or posterior; as not long before; not long after; long before the foundation of Rome; long after the conquest of Gaul by Julius Cesar.
4. Through the whole extent or duration of.
The God who fed me all my life long to this day. Gen 48.
The bird of dawning singeth all night long.
LONG, adv.
By means of; by the fault of; owing to. Obs.
Mistress, all this evil is long of you.
LONG, v.t. To belong. [Not used.]
LONG, v.i.
1. To desire earnestly or eagerly.
I long to see you. Rom 1.
I have longed after thy precepts. Psa 119.
I have longed for thy salvation. Psa 119.
2. To have a preternatural craving appetite; as a longing woman.
3. To have an eager appetite; as, to long for fruit.
long appears in definitions for these words:
A Abeyance Ablation Abode Abolition About Abstemious Accent Acclamation Accustomable Actinolite Adage Adansonia Adatis Adjourn Afeard Age Aged Ahuitzote Aicurus Alcaics Algeneb Algol Alkahest All Alligator Allonge Almadie Almond-tree Along Although Amaranthus America Amianthoid Amianthus Ammodyte Amorpha Amphibial Amphibrach Amphimacer Amphitheater Amyztli Anapest Ancient Anciently Ancony Angel-fish Anhima Anise Annihilate Annihilation Anomalistic Ant-bear Ant-eater Antanaclasis Antares Anthophyllite Antibacchius Antimony Antipathy Antiquity Ape Apex Aphis Apologue Apostolics Appetite Appointee Arc Arcade Arista Arthrodia Ask Aspen Ass Astrite At Atropia Attainder Augean Augmentation Aurora Avocado Avoset Baboon Babyroussa Bacchius Backstays Badger Bagpipe Baikalite Baize Balanced Balloen Bamboo Banana Bar Barbel Barbet Bare Barley Baron Barra Barrel Basilisk Basking-shark Bastard Baste Basted Basting Bastion Bateau Bathe Battel Bay Baza Be Beacon Beak Beam Bean Bear Beard Bearing-cloth Beet Beet-rave Bellows-fish Belone Bench Beroe Beryl Beryl-crystal Bilamellate Bilboes Bill Billet Bird Bison Bittern Black-faced Bladder-nut Bladed Bleak Blindworm Block Blood-hound Boa Boat Boat-bill Boat-hook Boatswain Bobo Bockelet Boitiapo Bolguacu Bolster Bolt-head Bombard Bonasus Bone Boom Borough Botetto Bougie Boundary Bourgeois Bow Bower Brasse Break Breakwater Breastbone Brick Broad Brood Broom Brushy Buckler Budge-bachelors Bug Bugelugey Bull-fight Burganet Burr Buzzardet By Cabbage Cabos Cagui Calamiferous Calamit Calumet Camber Camel Camelopard Camp Canal Canaliculate Candle Cane Capable Capillary Carabine Carbine Cargoose Carinate Carob Caryatides Caryophylleous Chain Chameleon Channeled Channeling Chap Chart Chestnut-tree Chevachie Chiastolite Chinned Choreus Choriambus Chronic Circle Circuit Climate Coati Cocoa Cole-seed Coleopter Cologne-earth Colony Colophony Color Column Comber Commit Conceit Conceptacle Concern Concision Conclude Conclusion Conduce Conflict Congratulate Conquer Consumptive Contempt Conversant Coop Corban Cord Cordate Cordated Cordwood Corridor Cotton-shrub Couchant Countenance Counterguard Countermark Coveted Cradle Crane Crane-fly Crasis Crave Craved Craving Create Credit Crest Cretic Crony Crout Crow-foot Crustalogy Cubeb Cucumber Cue Culverin Cupidity Curlew Currency Custom Cut Cuttle-fish Cycle Cylinder Dactyl Dally Damp Dead Deceit Decided Defile Deform Degree Demi-cannon Demi-culverin Depend Dependence Dephlogisticated Derange Descant Desideratum Desire Devour Diabetes Diastoly Din Diomede Discontinue Discount Dish Dispondee Disused Ditch Diuturnal Diuturnity Divorce Domino Doree Drabble Drabbling Dracunculus Dragon-fish Draw Draw-well Durable Durably Dwell Eager Eagerness Earnest Earthflax Edge Eld Eldest Electrophor Elephant Elephant-beetle Elk Elongate Elops Empire Encamp Endurer Enduring Enfeeble Engagement Enough Epiphysis Epitrite Equatorial Equicrural Erelong Ergot Erst Ever Ex-president Ex-representative Ex-secretary Ex-senator Exist Expropriate Face Fail Falcon Familiar Familiarly Fanged Farm Farther Fast Fate Fatigue Fen Ferule Finally Find Fish Fishkettle Fissure Fit Flambeau Flasket Flaxen Flourish Flute Flutter Focus Fog Follicle Forbearance Forbearing Forfeit Form Former Franc Friendly Fright Fryingpan Fur Furrow Galanga Galaxy Gallstone Gannet Gant Gape Gaper Garterfish Gash Gashed Gashing Gasp Gentleness Gnat Go Godwit Gondola Goodness Gown Grallic Grease Great Groove Grope Guest Ha Hackneyed Haddock Hag Hair Halt Hammoc Hanker Hankering Harass Hare Harpoon Hartshorn Hat Hatchel Hate Hautboy Hayrick Head Headed Hedgehog His Hold Home Hone Horsefaced Host Hound Houndfish How Humming-bird Hunger Hungering Hurdle Hurry Hyperbate Hypotenuse I Iambic Iambics Iambus Ibis Ill Imagine Immortal Inchest Incitement Indiction Inheritable Insuperable Introduce Inveteracy Inveterate Inveteration Irksome Javelin Jigger Jointer Journey Judiciously Kan Keeled Keelson Knitting-needle Know Krout Label Ladanum Ladle Lag Lanch Land Languish Last Lasting Lastingness Late Lately Lathy Latterly Launder Law Lay Leash Leather-seller Ledge Leg Legislative Length Lengthen Lengthened Lengthening Lengthwise Lengthy Lie Lineate Linen Ling Linger Lingering Lion Listen Live Livelong Lodge Loggerhead Long Long-sight Long-suffering Long-winded Longanimity Longer Longest Longeval Longevity Longevous Longimanous Longimetry Longinquity Longish Longitude Longitudinal Longitudinally Longlegged Longlived Longly Longshanked Longsome Longsuffering Longways Lope Loping Lose Lote Loudly Louse Lumpen Lust Lynx Mace Macrology Main Make Manage Map March Marmose Mast Mature Maxim May May-pole Meak Measure Melancholy Merciful Mercy Merry-thought Meter Metrical Mine Missing Modern Mold Molossus Monkey Moose Morally More Move Much Musk Musket Muskmelon Mustaches Nail Naphtha Neck Neckland New Newness No Nosed Number Numeral Numerous Nut-breaker O Oblada Obligatory Obliging Oblong Oblongness Old Oldness Operate Orbiculate Orgues Original Osteocol Other Ought Outlast Outlive Outwear Oval Overlive Overliver Overlong Overmast Overmasted Oversleep Overwatch Paco Palm-tree Pant Pantaloon Panting Papaw Parceling Parenthesis Parsimonious Pass Passy-measure Pated Patience Patriarchal Patron Pavan Peacock Pean Peel Pendant Pepper Perdurable Perduration Period Peristaltic Permanent Permanently Pessary Pew Pike Pilgrimage Pillow Pilous Pine Pintle Pipe Pique Pitch Place Plane-tree Pledge Plummet Poke-weed Pole Poling Pontoon Popularity Porcupine Position Possess Possession Precession Preconceive Premium Prescribe Prize Project Prolix Prolong Prurience Publicly Pulsate Pump Pun Purse Pycnite Quaker Quarter Race Raddle Rail Rake Rally Ravine Raw Ray Reach Read Reate Receive Recent Recently Reckon Reckoning Regard Remain Reprieved Reside Resolve Resound Respectable Respiration Resume Retain Revel Review Rib Ribin Richness Ride Ridge Right Rim Road Robbins Rod Rogue Roller Rope-walk Round Run Sable Sabliere Safe Salamander Sauce-pan Saucisse Sawer Scale Scapolite Scissure Scoop Scorn Scorning Scorpion Sea-fox Sea-needle Seal Season Seat Secrecy Seeming Sehat-fish Self Seraglio Settee Shaft Shag Shagginess Shaggy Shank Shave Shawl Sheath Sheeps-head Sheer Shock Shorl Short Short-lived Show Show-bread Shower Shred Shrimp Side Sigh Sighing Sight Sighted Sillimanite Silly Siphon Skeet Skink Slash Slavery Sleeper Slip Slit Sliver Slow Slumber Snout So Sofa Solicit Sore Sound Space Spanker Spare Spathe Spatulate Spear Spear-grass Spearing Specuation Spend Spike Spindle Spindle-shanked Spit Splice Splint Splinter Splise Split Spondaic Spondaical Spondee Spoon Squill Stablestand Stack Staff Stager Stake Stale Stalely Standard Standel Stander Standing Stang Staple Start Statistics Statute Stay Stick Stock-dove Stole Store Strange Strap Streak Stream Striated Stride Striding Strip Stripe Stubble-rake Subsequent Succede Succession Successor Sulcate Sum Superinduce Suppository Surcease Survivor Swallow-fly Swan Sweep Swifter Swing Swingling-knife Syncopation Systole Sythe Tabernacle Table Tail Take Tall Tant Tapir Team Tell Tempest Tenacious Tenuity Tera Terek Terminist Tetradynamian Tetragonal That The Theodolite Theorbo Thought Thred Three-cornered Three-nerved Throb Thunder-storm Tiller Tire Toise Tokay Tongs Too Trace Tract Trade-wind Traduce Trail Trammel Transmutation Transverse Traverse Tree-nail Trench Trenched Triangular Trigonous Triumph Trochee Trochil Tropic-bird Trough Trumpet Trunk Tubulous Tuck Tug Tung Tunic Turfing-spade Turmalin Turmeric Turpeth Tusk Twilight Ulmin Umbra Uncharming Unlucky Untruth Upbraid Upbraiding Usage Use Usury Vassalage Vavasor Verse Versification Version Verticity Vest Veteran Vibrant Vibration Vine Violoncello Virtue Visit Vivacious Vivaciousness Vivacity Void Volume Wade Wair Wait Walk Wand Warming-pan Watch Water-fowl Water-wort Wearisomeness Weary Weather-cloths Weeping-willow Welcome Well-water Wharf While Whisker Wide Widen Wilder Willow Wind Windy Wine Wing Winged Wish Within Worn Worral Wriggle Y Yak Yard Yearn Yearning Yerning Yet Yore Young Zedoary Zerda
A Abeyance Ablation Abode Abolition About Abstemious Accent Acclamation Accustomable Actinolite Adage Adansonia Adatis Adjourn Afeard Age Aged Ahuitzote Aicurus Alcaics Algeneb Algol Alkahest All Alligator Allonge Almadie Almond-tree Along Although Amaranthus America Amianthoid Amianthus Ammodyte Amorpha Amphibial Amphibrach Amphimacer Amphitheater Amyztli Anapest Ancient Anciently Ancony Angel-fish Anhima Anise Annihilate Annihilation Anomalistic Ant-bear Ant-eater Antanaclasis Antares Anthophyllite Antibacchius Antimony Antipathy Antiquity Ape Apex Aphis Apologue Apostolics Appetite Appointee Arc Arcade Arista Arthrodia Ask Aspen Ass Astrite At Atropia Attainder Augean Augmentation Aurora Avocado Avoset Baboon Babyroussa Bacchius Backstays Badger Bagpipe Baikalite Baize Balanced Balloen Bamboo Banana Bar Barbel Barbet Bare Barley Baron Barra Barrel Basilisk Basking-shark Bastard Baste Basted Basting Bastion Bateau Bathe Battel Bay Baza Be Beacon Beak Beam Bean Bear Beard Bearing-cloth Beet Beet-rave Bellows-fish Belone Bench Beroe Beryl Beryl-crystal Bilamellate Bilboes Bill Billet Bird Bison Bittern Black-faced Bladder-nut Bladed Bleak Blindworm Block Blood-hound Boa Boat Boat-bill Boat-hook Boatswain Bobo Bockelet Boitiapo Bolguacu Bolster Bolt-head Bombard Bonasus Bone Boom Borough Botetto Bougie Boundary Bourgeois Bow Bower Brasse Break Breakwater Breastbone Brick Broad Brood Broom Brushy Buckler Budge-bachelors Bug Bugelugey Bull-fight Burganet Burr Buzzardet By Cabbage Cabos Cagui Calamiferous Calamit Calumet Camber Camel Camelopard Camp Canal Canaliculate Candle Cane Capable Capillary Carabine Carbine Cargoose Carinate Carob Caryatides Caryophylleous Chain Chameleon Channeled Channeling Chap Chart Chestnut-tree Chevachie Chiastolite Chinned Choreus Choriambus Chronic Circle Circuit Climate Coati Cocoa Cole-seed Coleopter Cologne-earth Colony Colophony Color Column Comber Commit Conceit Conceptacle Concern Concision Conclude Conclusion Conduce Conflict Congratulate Conquer Consumptive Contempt Conversant Coop Corban Cord Cordate Cordated Cordwood Corridor Cotton-shrub Couchant Countenance Counterguard Countermark Coveted Cradle Crane Crane-fly Crasis Crave Craved Craving Create Credit Crest Cretic Crony Crout Crow-foot Crustalogy Cubeb Cucumber Cue Culverin Cupidity Curlew Currency Custom Cut Cuttle-fish Cycle Cylinder Dactyl Dally Damp Dead Deceit Decided Defile Deform Degree Demi-cannon Demi-culverin Depend Dependence Dephlogisticated Derange Descant Desideratum Desire Devour Diabetes Diastoly Din Diomede Discontinue Discount Dish Dispondee Disused Ditch Diuturnal Diuturnity Divorce Domino Doree Drabble Drabbling Dracunculus Dragon-fish Draw Draw-well Durable Durably Dwell Eager Eagerness Earnest Earthflax Edge Eld Eldest Electrophor Elephant Elephant-beetle Elk Elongate Elops Empire Encamp Endurer Enduring Enfeeble Engagement Enough Epiphysis Epitrite Equatorial Equicrural Erelong Ergot Erst Ever Ex-president Ex-representative Ex-secretary Ex-senator Exist Expropriate Face Fail Falcon Familiar Familiarly Fanged Farm Farther Fast Fate Fatigue Fen Ferule Finally Find Fish Fishkettle Fissure Fit Flambeau Flasket Flaxen Flourish Flute Flutter Focus Fog Follicle Forbearance Forbearing Forfeit Form Former Franc Friendly Fright Fryingpan Fur Furrow Galanga Galaxy Gallstone Gannet Gant Gape Gaper Garterfish Gash Gashed Gashing Gasp Gentleness Gnat Go Godwit Gondola Goodness Gown Grallic Grease Great Groove Grope Guest Ha Hackneyed Haddock Hag Hair Halt Hammoc Hanker Hankering Harass Hare Harpoon Hartshorn Hat Hatchel Hate Hautboy Hayrick Head Headed Hedgehog His Hold Home Hone Horsefaced Host Hound Houndfish How Humming-bird Hunger Hungering Hurdle Hurry Hyperbate Hypotenuse I Iambic Iambics Iambus Ibis Ill Imagine Immortal Inchest Incitement Indiction Inheritable Insuperable Introduce Inveteracy Inveterate Inveteration Irksome Javelin Jigger Jointer Journey Judiciously Kan Keeled Keelson Knitting-needle Know Krout Label Ladanum Ladle Lag Lanch Land Languish Last Lasting Lastingness Late Lately Lathy Latterly Launder Law Lay Leash Leather-seller Ledge Leg Legislative Length Lengthen Lengthened Lengthening Lengthwise Lengthy Lie Lineate Linen Ling Linger Lingering Lion Listen Live Livelong Lodge Loggerhead Long Long-sight Long-suffering Long-winded Longanimity Longer Longest Longeval Longevity Longevous Longimanous Longimetry Longinquity Longish Longitude Longitudinal Longitudinally Longlegged Longlived Longly Longshanked Longsome Longsuffering Longways Lope Loping Lose Lote Loudly Louse Lumpen Lust Lynx Mace Macrology Main Make Manage Map March Marmose Mast Mature Maxim May May-pole Meak Measure Melancholy Merciful Mercy Merry-thought Meter Metrical Mine Missing Modern Mold Molossus Monkey Moose Morally More Move Much Musk Musket Muskmelon Mustaches Nail Naphtha Neck Neckland New Newness No Nosed Number Numeral Numerous Nut-breaker O Oblada Obligatory Obliging Oblong Oblongness Old Oldness Operate Orbiculate Orgues Original Osteocol Other Ought Outlast Outlive Outwear Oval Overlive Overliver Overlong Overmast Overmasted Oversleep Overwatch Paco Palm-tree Pant Pantaloon Panting Papaw Parceling Parenthesis Parsimonious Pass Passy-measure Pated Patience Patriarchal Patron Pavan Peacock Pean Peel Pendant Pepper Perdurable Perduration Period Peristaltic Permanent Permanently Pessary Pew Pike Pilgrimage Pillow Pilous Pine Pintle Pipe Pique Pitch Place Plane-tree Pledge Plummet Poke-weed Pole Poling Pontoon Popularity Porcupine Position Possess Possession Precession Preconceive Premium Prescribe Prize Project Prolix Prolong Prurience Publicly Pulsate Pump Pun Purse Pycnite Quaker Quarter Race Raddle Rail Rake Rally Ravine Raw Ray Reach Read Reate Receive Recent Recently Reckon Reckoning Regard Remain Reprieved Reside Resolve Resound Respectable Respiration Resume Retain Revel Review Rib Ribin Richness Ride Ridge Right Rim Road Robbins Rod Rogue Roller Rope-walk Round Run Sable Sabliere Safe Salamander Sauce-pan Saucisse Sawer Scale Scapolite Scissure Scoop Scorn Scorning Scorpion Sea-fox Sea-needle Seal Season Seat Secrecy Seeming Sehat-fish Self Seraglio Settee Shaft Shag Shagginess Shaggy Shank Shave Shawl Sheath Sheeps-head Sheer Shock Shorl Short Short-lived Show Show-bread Shower Shred Shrimp Side Sigh Sighing Sight Sighted Sillimanite Silly Siphon Skeet Skink Slash Slavery Sleeper Slip Slit Sliver Slow Slumber Snout So Sofa Solicit Sore Sound Space Spanker Spare Spathe Spatulate Spear Spear-grass Spearing Specuation Spend Spike Spindle Spindle-shanked Spit Splice Splint Splinter Splise Split Spondaic Spondaical Spondee Spoon Squill Stablestand Stack Staff Stager Stake Stale Stalely Standard Standel Stander Standing Stang Staple Start Statistics Statute Stay Stick Stock-dove Stole Store Strange Strap Streak Stream Striated Stride Striding Strip Stripe Stubble-rake Subsequent Succede Succession Successor Sulcate Sum Superinduce Suppository Surcease Survivor Swallow-fly Swan Sweep Swifter Swing Swingling-knife Syncopation Systole Sythe Tabernacle Table Tail Take Tall Tant Tapir Team Tell Tempest Tenacious Tenuity Tera Terek Terminist Tetradynamian Tetragonal That The Theodolite Theorbo Thought Thred Three-cornered Three-nerved Throb Thunder-storm Tiller Tire Toise Tokay Tongs Too Trace Tract Trade-wind Traduce Trail Trammel Transmutation Transverse Traverse Tree-nail Trench Trenched Triangular Trigonous Triumph Trochee Trochil Tropic-bird Trough Trumpet Trunk Tubulous Tuck Tug Tung Tunic Turfing-spade Turmalin Turmeric Turpeth Tusk Twilight Ulmin Umbra Uncharming Unlucky Untruth Upbraid Upbraiding Usage Use Usury Vassalage Vavasor Verse Versification Version Verticity Vest Veteran Vibrant Vibration Vine Violoncello Virtue Visit Vivacious Vivaciousness Vivacity Void Volume Wade Wair Wait Walk Wand Warming-pan Watch Water-fowl Water-wort Wearisomeness Weary Weather-cloths Weeping-willow Welcome Well-water Wharf While Whisker Wide Widen Wilder Willow Wind Windy Wine Wing Winged Wish Within Worn Worral Wriggle Y Yak Yard Yearn Yearning Yerning Yet Yore Young Zedoary Zerda
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