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LONGINGS
Noun
longings
plural of longing
Anagrams
• songling
Source: Wiktionary
LONGING
Long"ing, n.
Definition: An eager desire; a craving; a morbid appetite; an earnest wish; an aspiration. Put on my crown; I have immortal longings in me. Shak.
LONG
Long, a. [Compar. Longer; superl. Longest.] Etym: [AS. long, lang; akin to OS, OFries., D., & G. lang, Icel. langr, Sw. lång, Dan. lang, Goth. laggs, L.longus. sq. root125. 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.
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.
3. Slow in passing; causing weariness by length or duration; lingering; as, long hours of watching.
4. Occurring or coming after an extended interval; distant in time; far away. The we may us reserve both fresh and strong Against the tournament, which is not long. Spenser.
5. Extended to any 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.
6. Far-reaching; extensive. " Long views." Burke.
7. (Phonetics)
Definition: Prolonged, or relatively more prolonged, in utterance; -- said of vowels and syllables. See Short, a., 13, and Guide to Pronunciation, §§ 22, 30.
Note: 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. In the long run, in the whole course of things taken together; in the ultimate result; eventually.
РLong clam (Zo̦l.), 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 mater. 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 (Whist), a suit of which one holds originally more than three cards. R. A. Proctor.
РLong 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) (Zo̦l.) 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, or 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.
Long, n.
1. (Mus.)
Definition: A note formerly used in music, one half the length of a large, twice that of a breve.
2. (Phonetics)
Definition: A long sound, syllable, or vowel.
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.
Long, adv. Etym: [AS. lance.]
1. To a great extent in apace; as, a long drawn out line.
2. To a great extent in time; during a long time. They that tarry long at the wine. Prov. xxiii. 30. When the trumpet soundeth long. Ex. xix. 13.
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.
4. Through the whole extent or duration. The bird of dawning singeth all night long. Shak.
5. Through an extent of time, more or less; -- only in question; as, how long will you be gone
Long, prep. Etym: [Abbreviated fr. along. See 3d Along.]
Definition: By means of; by the fault of; because of. [Obs.] See Along of, under 3d Along.
Long, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Longed; p. pr. & vb. n. Longing.] Etym: [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 after or for. I long to see you. Rom. i. 11. I have longed after thy precepts. Ps. cxix. 40. I have longed for thy salvation. Ps. cxix. 174. Nicomedes, longing for herrings, was supplied with fresh ones . . . at a great distance from the sea. Arbuthnot.
2. To belong; -- used with to, unto, or for. [Obs.] The labor which that longeth unto me. Chaucer.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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