adv. [ Pref. a- + length. ] At full length; lengthwise. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

A canvas for a portrait measuring 58 by 94 inches. The half bishop measures 45 by 56. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. chalenge claim, accusation, challenge, OF. chalenge, chalonge, claim, accusation, contest, fr. L. calumnia false accusation, chicanery. See Calumny. ] 1. An invitation to engage in a contest or controversy of any kind; a defiance; specifically, a summons to fight a duel; also, the letter or message conveying the summons. [ 1913 Webster ]

A challenge to controversy. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of a sentry in halting any one who appears at his post, and demanding the countersign. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A claim or demand. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

There must be no challenge of superiority. Collier. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Hunting) The opening and crying of hounds at first finding the scent of their game. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Law) An exception to a juror or to a member of a court martial, coupled with a demand that he should be held incompetent to act; the claim of a party that a certain person or persons shall not sit in trial upon him or his cause. Blackstone [ 1913 Webster ]

6. An exception to a person as not legally qualified to vote. The challenge must be made when the ballot is offered. [ U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Challenge to the array (Law), an exception to the whole panel. --
Challenge to the favor, the alleging a special cause, the sufficiency of which is to be left to those whose duty and office it is to decide upon it. --
Challenge to the polls, an exception taken to any one or more of the individual jurors returned. --
Peremptory challenge, a privilege sometimes allowed to defendants, of challenging a certain number of jurors (fixed by statute in different States) without assigning any cause. --
Principal challenge, that which the law allows to be sufficient if found to be true. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Challenged p. pr. & vb. n. Challenging. ] [ OE. chalengen to accuse, claim, OF. chalengier, chalongier, to claim, accuse, dispute, fr. L. calumniar to attack with false accusations. See Challenge, n., and cf. Calumniate. ] 1. To call to a contest of any kind; to call to answer; to defy. [ 1913 Webster ]

I challenge any man to make any pretense to power by right of fatherhood. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To call, invite, or summon to answer for an offense by personal combat. [ 1913 Webster ]

By this I challenge him to single fight. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To claim as due; to demand as a right. [ 1913 Webster ]

Challenge better terms. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To censure; to blame. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

He complained of the emperors . . . and challenged them for that he had no greater revenues . . . from them. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Mil.) To question or demand the countersign from (one who attempts to pass the lines); as, the sentinel challenged us, with “Who comes there?” [ 1913 Webster ]

6. To take exception to; question; as, to challenge the accuracy of a statement or of a quotation. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. (Law) To object to or take exception to, as to a juror, or member of a court. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. To object to the reception of the vote of, as on the ground that the person in not qualified as a voter. [ U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

To challenge to the
array, favor, polls. See under Challenge, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To assert a right; to claim a place. [ 1913 Webster ]

Where nature doth with merit challenge. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. That may be challenged. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. having doubts expressed about its truth.
Syn. -- disputed, questioned. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. handicapped or disabled; -- used as a euphemism, especially in combinations; as, physically challenged; mentally challenged. [ PJC ]

n. One who challenges. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. requiring full use of one's abilities or resources; as, challenging task.
Syn. -- ambitious, demanding. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. disposed to or engaged in defiance of established authority.
Syn. -- insubordinate, resistant, resistive. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ Cf. AS. ellende foreign, strange, G. elend miserable. ] Sorrowful; wretched; full of trouble. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Loneliness; misery. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ a., n }. See Elenge, Elengeness. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To lengthen. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. accommodating the full height of the human figure; as, a full-length mirror. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. representing the full height of the human figure; as, a full-length portrait. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

3. unabridged; as, the full-length play. Opposite of abridged.
Syn. -- complete, uncut. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ n., or . [ Name of a valley in Scotland. ] A kind of Highland Scotch cap for men, with straight sides and a hollow top sloping to the back, where it is parted and held together by ribbons or strings.

The long silk streamers of his Glengarry bonnet. L. Hutton. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. Of half the whole or ordinary length, as a picture. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ }, a. Longer; longest; -- obsolete compar. and superl. of long. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. lengthe, AS. lengð, fr. lang, long, long; akin to D. lengte, Dan. længde, Sw. längd, Icel. lengd. See Long, a. ] 1. The longest, or longer, dimension of any object, in distinction from breadth or width; extent of anything from end to end; the longest line which can be drawn through a body, parallel to its sides; as, the length of a church, or of a ship; the length of a rope or line. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A portion of space or of time considered as measured by its length; -- often in the plural. [ 1913 Webster ]

Large lengths of seas and shores. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

The future but a length behind the past. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The quality or state of being long, in space or time; extent; duration; as, some sea birds are remarkable for the length of their wings; he was tired by the length of the sermon, and the length of his walk. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A single piece or subdivision of a series, or of a number of long pieces which may be connected together; as, a length of pipe; a length of fence. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Detail or amplification; unfolding; continuance as, to pursue a subject to a great length. [ 1913 Webster ]

May Heaven, great monarch, still augment your bliss
With length of days, and every day like this. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. Distance. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

He had marched to the length of Exeter. Clarendon. [ 1913 Webster ]

At length. (a) At or in the full extent; without abbreviation; as, let the name be inserted at length. (b) At the end or conclusion; after a long period. See Syn. of At last, under Last. --
At arm's length. See under Arm. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To lengthen. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Lengthened p. pr. & vb. n. Lengthening ] To extent in length; to make longer in extent or duration; as, to lengthen a line or a road; to lengthen life; -- sometimes followed by out. [ 1913 Webster ]

What if I please to lengthen out his date. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To become longer. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Long. [ Obs. ] Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a lengthy manner; at great length or extent. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state or quality of being lengthy; prolixity. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } adv. In the direction of the length; running or extending in the direction of the length of a thing; in a longitudinal direction. Contrasted with crosswise. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Compar. Lengthier superl. Lengthiest. ] Having length; rather long or too long; prolix; not brief; -- said chiefly of discourses, writings, and the like. “Lengthy periods.” Washington. “Some lengthy additions.” Byron. “These would be details too lengthy.” Jefferson. “To cut short lengthy explanations.” Trench. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. malengin; L. malus bad, evil + ingenium natural capacity. See Engine. ] Evil machination; guile; deceit. [ Obs. ] Gower. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. th^le far + &unr_; near + -scope. ] (Optics) An instrument of such focal length that it may be used as an observing telescope for objects close at hand or as a long-focused microscope. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

prop. n. See Tamerlane.
Syn. -- Tamerlane, Timour. [ PJC ]

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[ 1913 Webster ]

a. Representing the whole figure; -- said of a picture or statue. -- n. A portrait or statue representing the whole figure. [ 1913 Webster ]