Loneliness (n.) The condition of being lonely; solitude; seclusion.
Loneliness (n.) The state of being unfrequented by human beings; as, the loneliness of a road.
Loneliness (n.) Love of retirement; disposition to solitude.
Loneliness (n.) A feeling of depression resulting from being alone.
Lonely (superl.) Sequestered from company or neighbors; solitary; retired; as, a lonely situation; a lonely cell.
Lonely (superl.) Alone, or in want of company; forsaken.
Lonely (superl.) Not frequented by human beings; as, a lonely wood.
Lonely (superl.) Having a feeling of depression or sadness resulting from the consciousness of being alone; lonesome.
Loneness (n.) Solitude; seclusion.
Lonesome (superl.) Secluded from society; not frequented by human beings; solitary.
Lonesome (superl.) Conscious of, and somewhat depressed by, solitude; as, to feel lonesome.
Long (superl.) 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.
Long (superl.) 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.
Long (superl.) Slow in passing; causing weariness by length or duration; lingering; as, long hours of watching.
Long (superl.) Occurring or coming after an extended interval; distant in time; far away.
Long (superl.) 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.
Long (superl.) Far-reaching; extensive.
Long (superl.) Prolonged, or relatively more prolonged, in utterance; -- said of vowels and syllables. See Short, a., 13, and Guide to Pronunciation, // 22, 30.
Long (n.) A note formerly used in music, one half the length of a large, twice that of a breve.
Long (n.) A long sound, syllable, or vowel.
Long (n.) The longest dimension; the greatest extent; -- in the phrase, the long and the short of it, that is, the sum and substance of it.
Long (adv.) To a great extent in apace; as, a long drawn out line.
Long (adv.) To a great extent in time; during a long time.
Long (adv.) 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.
Long (adv.) Through the whole extent or duration.
Long (adv.) Through an extent of time, more or less; -- only in question; as, how long will you be gone?
Long (prep.) By means of; by the fault of; because of.
Longed (imp. & p. p.) of Long
Longing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Long
Long (a.) To feel a strong or morbid desire or craving; to wish for something with eagerness; -- followed by an infinitive, or by after or for.
Long (a.) To belong; -- used with to, unto, or for.
Longan (n.) A pulpy fruit related to the litchi, and produced by an evergreen East Indian tree (Nephelium Longan).
Longanimity (n.) Disposition to bear injuries patiently; forbearance; patience.
Long-armed (a.) Having long arms; as, the long-armed ape or gibbon.
Longbeak (n.) The American redbellied snipe (Macrorhamphus scolopaceus); -- called also long-billed dowitcher.
Longboat (n.) Formerly, the largest boat carried by a merchant vessel, corresponding to the launch of a naval vessel.
Longbow (n.) The ordinary bow, not mounted on a stock; -- so called in distinction from the crossbow when both were used as weapons of war. Also, sometimes, such a bow of about the height of a man, as distinguished from a much shorter one.
Long-breathed (a.) Having the power of retaining the breath for a long time; long-winded.
Long-drawn (a.) Extended to a great length.
Longe (n.) A thrust. See Lunge.
Longe (n.) The training ground for a horse.
Longe (n.) Same as 4th Lunge.
Longer (n.) One who longs for anything.
Longeval (a.) Long-loved; longevous.
Longevity (n.) Long duration of life; length of life.
Longevous (a.) Living a long time; of great age.
Longhand (n.) The written characters used in the common method of writing; -- opposed to shorthand.
Longheaded (a.) Having unusual foresight or sagacity.
Longhorn (n.) A long-horned animal, as a cow, goat, or beetle. See Long-horned.
Long-horned (a.) Having a long horn or horns; as, a long-horned goat, or cow; having long antennae, as certain beetles (Longicornia).
Longicorn (a.) Long-horned; pertaining to the Longicornia.
Longicorn (n.) One of the Longicornia.
Longicornia (n. pl.) A division of beetles, including a large number of species, in which the antennae are very long. Most of them, while in the larval state, bore into the wood or beneath the bark of trees, and some species are very destructive to fruit and shade trees. See Apple borer, under Apple, and Locust beetle, under Locust.
Longilateral (a.) Having long sides especially, having the form of a long parallelogram.
Longiloquence (n.) Long-windedness.
Longimanous (a.) Having long hands.
Longimetry (n.) The art or practice of measuring distances or lengths.
Longing (n.) An eager desire; a craving; a morbid appetite; an earnest wish; an aspiration.
Longingly (adv.) With longing.
Longinquity (n.) Greatness of distance; remoteness.
Longipalp (n.) One of a tribe of beetles, having long maxillary palpi.
Longipennate (a.) Having long wings, or quills.
Longipennes (n. pl.) A group of longwinged sea birds, including the gulls, petrels, etc.
Longipennine (a.) Of or pertaining to the Longipennes; longipennate.
Longirostres (pl. ) of Longiroster
Longirosters (pl. ) of Longiroster
Longiroster (n.) One of the Longirostres.
Longirostral (a.) Having a long bill; of or pertaining to the Longirostres.
Longirostres (n. pl.) A group of birds characterized by having long slender bills, as the sandpipers, curlews, and ibises. It is now regarded as an artificial division.
Longish (a.) Somewhat long; moderately long.
Longitude (n.) Length; measure or distance along the longest line; -- distinguished from breadth or thickness; as, the longitude of a room; rare now, except in a humorous sense.
Longitude (n.) The arc or portion of the equator intersected between the meridian of a given place and the meridian of some other place from which longitude is reckoned, as from Greenwich, England, or sometimes from the capital of a country, as from Washington or Paris. The longitude of a place is expressed either in degrees or in time; as, that of New York is 74¡ or 4 h. 56 min. west of Greenwich.
Longitude (n.) The distance in degrees, reckoned from the vernal equinox, on the ecliptic, to a circle at right angles to the ecliptic passing through the heavenly body whose longitude is designated; as, the longitude of Capella is 79¡.
Longitudinal (a.) Of or pertaining to longitude or length; as, longitudinal distance.
Longitudinal (a.) Extending in length; in the direction of the length; running lengthwise, as distinguished from transverse; as, the longitudinal diameter of a body.
Longitudinal (n.) A railway sleeper lying parallel with the rail.
Longitudinally (adv.) In the direction of length.
Longlegs (n.) A daddy longlegs.
Long-lived (a.) Having a long life; having constitutional peculiarities which make long life probable; lasting long; as, a long-lived tree; they are a longlived family; long-lived prejudices.
Longly (adv.) With longing desire.
Longly (adv.) For a long time; hence, wearisomely.
Longmynd rocks () The sparingly fossiliferous conglomerates, grits, schists, and states of Great Britain, which lie at the base of the Cambrian system; -- so called, because typically developed in the Longmynd Hills, Shropshire.
Longness (n.) Length.
Longnose (n.) The European garfish.
Long primer () A kind of type, in size between small pica and bourgeois.
Longshanks (n.) The stilt.
Longshore (a.) Belonging to the seashore or a seaport; along and on the shore.
Longshoremen (pl. ) of Longshoreman
Longshoreman (n.) One of a class of laborers employed about the wharves of a seaport, especially in loading and unloading vessels.
Long-sight (n.) Long-sightedness.
Long-sighted (a.) Able to see objects at a great distance; hence, having great foresight; sagacious; farseeing.
Long-sighted (a.) Able to see objects distinctly at a distance, but not close at hand; hypermetropic.
Long-sightedness (n.) The state or condition of being long-sighted; hence, sagacity; shrewdness.
Long-sightedness (n.) See Hypermetropia.
Longsome (a.) Extended in length; tiresome.
Longspun (a.) Spun out, or extended, to great length; hence, long-winded; tedious.
Longspur (n.) Any one of several species of fringilline birds of the genus Calcarius (or Plectrophanes), and allied genera. The Lapland longspur (C. Lapponicus), the chestnut-colored longspur (C. ornatus), and other species, inhabit the United States.
Long-stop (n.) One who is set to stop balls which pass the wicket keeper.
Long-sufferance (n.) Forbearance to punish or resent.
Long-suffering (n.) Bearing injuries or provocation for a long time; patient; not easily provoked.