a. lasting through all time; unending; as, The agelong struggle for freedom.
Syn. -- unending [ WordNet 1.5 ]

or n. (Zool.) The tunny. See Albicore. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. allonge, earlier alonge, a lengthening. See Allonge, v., and cf. Lunge. ] 1. (Fencing) A thrust or pass; a lunge. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A slip of paper attached to a bill of exchange for receiving indorsements, when the back of the bill itself is already full; a rider. [ A French usage ] Abbott. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ F. allonger; à (L. ad) + long (L. longus) long. ] To thrust with a sword; to lunge. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. [ OE. along, anlong, AS. andlang, along; pref. and- (akin to OFris. ond-, OHG. ant-, Ger. ent-, Goth. and-, anda-, L. ante, Gr. &unr_;, Skr. anti, over against) + lang long. See Long. ] 1. By the length; in a line with the length; lengthwise. [ 1913 Webster ]

Some laid along . . . on spokes of wheels are hung. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. In a line, or with a progressive motion; onward; forward. [ 1913 Webster ]

We will go along by the king's highway. Numb. xxi. 22. [ 1913 Webster ]

He struck with his o'ertaking wings,
And chased us south along. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. In company; together. [ 1913 Webster ]

He to England shall along with you. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

All along, all through the course of; during the whole time; throughout. “I have all along declared this to be a neutral paper.” Addison. --
To get along, to get on; to make progress, as in business. “She 'll get along in heaven better than you or I.” Mrs. Stowe. [ 1913 Webster ]

prep. By the length of, as distinguished from across. “Along the lowly lands.” Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

The kine . . . went along the highway. 1 Sam. vi. 12. [ 1913 Webster ]

. [ AS. gelang owing to. ] (Now heard only in the prep. phrase along of.) [ 1913 Webster ]

Along of,
Along on, often shortened to
Long of, prep. phr., owing to; on account of. [ Obs. or Low. Eng. ] “On me is not along thin evil fare.” Chaucer. “And all this is long of you.” Shak. “This increase of price is all along of the foreigners.” London Punch. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Along the shore or coast. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Longshoreman. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Along or by the side; side by side with; -- often with of; as, bring the boat alongside; alongside of him; alongside of the tree. [ 1913 Webster ]

prep. & adv. [ Formed fr. along, like amongst fr. among. ] Along. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Belonged p. pr. & vb. n. Belonging. ] [ OE. belongen (akin to D. belangen to concern, G. belangen to attain to, to concern); pref. be- + longen to desire. See Long, v. i. ] [ Usually construed with to. ] 1. To be the property of; as, Jamaica belongs to Great Britain. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To be a part of, or connected with; to be appendant or related; to owe allegiance or service. [ 1913 Webster ]

A desert place belonging to . . . Bethsaids. Luke ix. 10. [ 1913 Webster ]

The mighty men which belonged to David. 1 Kings i. 8. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To be the concern or proper business or function of; to appertain to. “Do not interpretations belong to God ?” Gen. xl. 8. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To be suitable for; to be due to. [ 1913 Webster ]

Strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age. Heb. v. 14. [ 1913 Webster ]

No blame belongs to thee. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To be native to, or an inhabitant of; esp. to have a legal residence, settlement, or inhabitancy, whether by birth or operation of law, so as to be entitled to maintenance by the parish or town. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bastards also are settled in the parishes to which the mothers belong. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To be deserved by. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

More evils belong us than happen to us. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Commonly in the pl. ] 1. That which belongs to one; that which pertains to one; hence, goods or effects. “Thyself and thy belongings.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which is connected with a principal or greater thing; an appendage; an appurtenance. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Family; relations; household. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Few persons of her ladyship's belongings stopped, before they did her bidding, to ask her reasons. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. cacholong, said to be from Cach, the name of a river in Bucharia + cholon, a Calmuck word for stone; or fr. a Calmuck word meaning “beautiful stone” ] (Min.) An opaque or milk-white chalcedony, a variety of quartz; also, a similar variety of opal. [ 1913 Webster ]

imp. of Cling. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A gripping device, as for stretching wire, etc., consisting of two jaws so attached to a ring that they are closed by pulling on the ring. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

1. (Zool.) An arachnidan of the genus Phalangium, and allied genera, having a small body and four pairs of long legs; -- called also harvestman, carter, and grandfather longlegs. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) A name applied to many species of dipterous insects of the genus Tipula, and allied genera, with slender bodies, and very long, slender legs; the crane fly; -- called also father longlegs. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In the direction of the edge. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Three hundred thousand pieces have you stuck
Edgelong into the ground. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ See Eloign, Elongate. ] 1. To lengthen out; to prolong. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To put away; to separate; to keep off. [ Obs. ] Wyatt. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Elongated p. pr. & vb. n. Elongating. ] [ LL. elongatus, p. p. of elongare to remove, to prolong; e + L. longus long. See Long, a., and cf. Eloign. ] 1. To lengthen; to extend; to stretch; as, to elongate a line. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To remove further off. [ Obs. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To depart to, or be at, a distance; esp., to recede apparently from the sun, as a planet in its orbit. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ LL. elongatus. ] Drawn out at length; elongated; as, an elongate leaf. “An elongate form.” Earle. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. having a length noticeably longer than the width.
Syn. -- elongate. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

2. rendered longer.
Syn. -- lengthened. [ PJC ]

n. [ LL. elongatio: cf. F. élongation. ] 1. The act of lengthening, or the state of being lengthened; protraction; extension. “Elongation of the fibers.” Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which lengthens out; continuation. [ 1913 Webster ]

May not the mountains of Westmoreland and Cumberland be considered as elongations of these two chains? Pinkerton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Removal to a distance; withdrawal; a being at a distance; distance. [ 1913 Webster ]

The distant points in the celestial expanse appear to the eye in so small a degree of elongation from one another, as bears no proportion to what is real. Glanvill. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Astron.) The angular distance of a planet from the sun; as, the elongation of Venus or Mercury. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. & prep. [ Cf. Along. ] Lengthwise; along. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The doors were all of adamants eterne,
I-clenched overthwart and endelong
With iron tough. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

He pricketh endelong the large space. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

To thrust the raft endlong across the moat. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Before the &unr_;apse of a long time; soon; -- usually separated, ere long. [ 1913 Webster ]

A man, . . . following the stag, erelong slew him. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

The world, erelong, a world of tears must weep. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Zool.) See Daddy longlegs, 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. With the flat side downward; not edgewise. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

obs. imp. & p. p. of Fling. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Of the same origin as flawn, flan, a metal disk. ] (Stereotyping) A compressed mass of paper sheets, forming a matrix or mold for stereotype plates. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ OE. furlong, furlang, AS. furlang, furlung, prop., the length of a furrow; furh furrow + lang long. See Furrow, and Long, a. ] A measure of length; the eighth part of a mile; forty rods; two hundred and twenty yards. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. [ OE. hedling, hevedlynge; prob. confused with E. long, a. & adv. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. With the head foremost; headforemost; head first; as, to fall headlong. Acts i. 18. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Rashly; precipitately; without deliberation. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Hastily; without delay or respite. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Rash; precipitate; as, headlong folly. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Steep; precipitous. [ Poetic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Like a tower upon a headlong rock. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) A fruit bat, esp. the Indian edible fruit bat (Pteropus edulis). [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Life + long. Cf. Livelong. ] Lasting or continuing through life. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ For lifelong. Cf. Lifelong. ] 1. Whole; entire; long in passing; -- used of time, as day or night, in adverbial phrases, and usually with a sense of tediousness. [ 1913 Webster ]

The obscure bird
Clamored the livelong night. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

How could she sit the livelong day,
Yet never ask us once to play? Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Lasting; durable. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Thou hast built thyself a livelong monument. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Compar. Longer superl. Longest ] [ AS. long, lang; akin to OS, OFries., D., & G. lang, Icel. langr, Sw. lång, Dan. lang, Goth. laggs, L. longus. √125. Cf. Length, Ling a fish, Linger, Lunge, Purloin. ] 1. Drawn out in a line, or in the direction of length; protracted; extended; as, a long line; -- opposed to short, and distinguished from broad or wide. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Drawn out or extended in time; continued through a considerable tine, or to a great length; as, a long series of events; a long debate; a long drama; a long history; a long book. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Slow in passing; causing weariness by length or duration; lingering; as, long hours of watching. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Occurring or coming after an extended interval; distant in time; far away. [ 1913 Webster ]

The we may us reserve both fresh and strong
Against the tournament, which is not long. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Having a length of the specified measure; of a specified length; as, a span long; a yard long; a mile long, that is, extended to the measure of a mile, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. Far-reaching; extensive. “ Long views.” Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. (Phonetics) Prolonged, or relatively more prolonged, in utterance; -- said of vowels and syllables. See Short, a., 13, and Guide to Pronunciation, §§ 22, 30. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. (Finance & Com.) Having a supply of stocks or goods; prepared for, or depending for a profit upon, advance in prices; as, long of cotton. Hence, the phrases: to be, or go, long of the market, to be on the long side of the market, to hold products or securities for a rise in price, esp. when bought on a margin. Contrasted to short. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

☞ Long is used as a prefix in a large number of compound adjectives which are mostly of obvious meaning; as, long-armed, long-beaked, long-haired, long-horned, long-necked, long-sleeved, long-tailed, long- worded, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

In the long run, in the whole course of things taken together; in the ultimate result; eventually. --
Long clam (Zool.), the common clam (Mya arenaria) of the Northern United States and Canada; -- called also soft-shell clam and long-neck clam. See Mya. --
Long cloth, a kind of cotton cloth of superior quality. --
Long clothes, clothes worn by a young infant, extending below the feet. --
Long division. (Math.) See Division. --
Long dozen, one more than a dozen; thirteen. --
Long home, the grave. --
Long measure,
Long meter. See under Measure, Meter. --
Long Parliament (Eng. Hist.), the Parliament which assembled Nov. 3, 1640, and was dissolved by Cromwell, April 20, 1653. --
Long price, the full retail price. --
Long purple (Bot.), a plant with purple flowers, supposed to be the Orchis mascula. Dr. Prior. --
Long suit (a) (Whist), a suit of which one holds originally more than three cards. R. A. Proctor. (b) One's most important resource or source of strength; as, as an entertainer, her voice was her long suit. --
Long tom. (a) A pivot gun of great length and range, on the dock of a vessel. (b) A long trough for washing auriferous earth. [ Western U.S. ] (c) (Zool.) The long-tailed titmouse. --
Long wall (Coal Mining), a working in which the whole seam is removed and the roof allowed to fall in, as the work progresses, except where passages are needed. --
Of long, a long time. [ Obs. ] Fairfax. --
To be long of the market, or
To go long of the market,
To be on the long side of the market, etc. (Stock Exchange), to hold stock for a rise in price, or to have a contract under which one can demand stock on or before a certain day at a stipulated price; -- opposed to short in such phrases as, to be short of stock, to sell short, etc. [ Cant ] See Short. --
To have a long head, to have a farseeing or sagacious mind. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Longed p. pr. & vb. n. Longing. ] [ AS. langian to increase, to lengthen, to stretch out the mind after, to long, to crave, to belong to, fr. lang long. See Long, a. ] 1. To feel a strong or morbid desire or craving; to wish for something with eagerness; -- followed by an infinitive, or by for or after. [ 1913 Webster ]

I long to see you. Rom. i. 11. [ 1913 Webster ]

I have longed after thy precepts. Ps. cxix. 40. [ 1913 Webster ]

I have longed for thy salvation. Ps. cxix. 174. [ 1913 Webster ]

Nicomedes, longing for herrings, was supplied with fresh ones . . . at a great distance from the sea. Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To belong; -- used with to, unto, or for. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The labor which that longeth unto me. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Mus.) A note formerly used in music, one half the length of a large, twice that of a breve. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Phonetics) A long sound, syllable, or vowel. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The longest dimension; the greatest extent; -- in the phrase, the long and the short of it, that is, the sum and substance of it. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. [ AS. lance. ] 1. To a great extent in space; as, a long drawn out line. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To a great extent in time; during a long time. [ 1913 Webster ]

They that tarry long at the wine. Prov. xxiii. 30. [ 1913 Webster ]

When the trumpet soundeth long. Ex. xix. 13. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Through the whole extent or duration. [ 1913 Webster ]

The bird of dawning singeth all night long. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Through an extent of time, more or less; -- only in question; as, how long will you be gone? [ 1913 Webster ]

prep. [ Abbreviated fr. along. See 3d Along. ] By means of; by the fault of; because of. [ Obs. ] See Along of, under 3d Along. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. active over a relatively long period of time. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Bot.) A pulpy fruit related to the litchi, and produced by an evergreen East Indian longanberry (Nephelium Longan). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A tree (Dimocarpus longan) of Southeastern Asia to Australia grown primarily for its sweet translucent-fleshed edible fruit (the longan) resembling litchi nuts; -- it is sometimes placed in genera Euphoria or Nephelium.
Syn. -- longan, lungen, Dimocarpus longan, Euphoria litchi, Nephelium longana. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. Asian fruit similar to litchi.
Syn. -- dragon's eye. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. longanimitas; longus long + animus mind: cf. F. longanimité. ] Disposition to bear injuries patiently; forbearance; patience. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having long arms; as, the long-armed ape or gibbon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) The American redbellied snipe (Macrorhamphus scolopaceus); -- called also long-billed dowitcher. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a fat-bellied stoneware drinking jug with a long neck; decorated with a caricature of Cardinal Bellarmine (17th century).
Syn. -- bellarmine, graybeard. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Naut.) Formerly, the largest boat carried by a merchant vessel, corresponding to the launch of a naval vessel. [ 1913 Webster ]