Emily Dickinson Lexicon

LON-GE'VAL, a. [L. longus and ævum.]

Long lived. – Pope.

LON-GEVI-TY, n. [L. longævitas; longus, long, and ævum, age.]

Length or duration of life; more generally, great length of life. The instances of longevity are chiefly among the abstemious. – Arbuthnot.

LON-GE'VOUS, a. [L. longævus, supra.]

Living a long time; of great age.

LONG'-FANGED, a.

Having long fangs. – Scott.

LONG-FOR-GOT'TEN, a.

Forgotten a long time.

LONG'-HEAD-ED, a.

Having a great extent of thought.

LON'GI-CORN, a. [L. longus and cornu.]

Having long horns; an epithet given as a tribe of insects on account of the length of their antennæ.

LON-GIM'A-NOUS, a. [L. longus, long, and manus, hand.]

Having long hands. – Brown.

LON-GIM'E-TRY, n. [L. longus, long, and Gr. μετρον, measure.]

The art or practice of measuring distances or lengths, whether accessible or inaccessible. – Encyc.

LONG'ING, n.

An eager desire; a craving or preternatural appetite.

LONG'ING, ppr.

Earnestly desiring; having a craving preternatural appetite.

LONG'ING-LY, adv.

With eager wishes or appetite.

LON-GIN'QUI-TY, n. [L. longinquitas.]

Great distance. – Barrow.

LON'GI-PALP, a. [L. longus and palpus.]

Having long feelers; an epithet given as a tribe of insects or beetles.

LON-GI-PEN'NATE, a.

Having long wings, as birds.

LON-GI-ROS'TER, a. [L. longus and rostrum.]

Having a long beak.

LON-GI-ROS'TER, n.

One of a tribe of wading fowls, having very long beaks which they thrust in the mud in search of food.

LONG'ISH, a.

Somewhat long; moderately long.

LON'GI-TUDE, n. [L. longitudo, from longus, long.]

1. Properly, length; as, the longitude of a room; but in this sense not now used. Appropriately, in geography,
2. The distance of any place on the globe from another place, eastward or westward; or the distance of any place from a given meridian. Boston, in Massachusetts, is situated in the 71st degree of longitude west from Greenwich. To be able to ascertain precisely the longitude of ship at sea, is a great desideratum in navigation.
3. The longitude of a star, is its distance from the equinoctial points, or the beginning of Aries or Libra. – Bailey.

LON-GI-TU'DIN-AL, a.

1. Pertaining to longitude or length; as, longitudinal distance.
2. Extending in length; running lengthwise, as distinguished from transverse or across; as, the longitudinal diameter of a body. The longitudinal suture of the head runs between the coronet and lamdoidal sutures. – Bailey.

LON-GI-TU'DIN-AL-LY, adv.

In the direction of length. Some of the fibers of the human body are placed longitudinally, others transversely. – Encyc.

LONG'LEG-GED, a.

Having long legs.

LONG'LIV-ED, a.

Having a long life or existence; living long; lasting long.

LONG'-LOST, a.

Lost a long time.

LONG'-LOV-ED, a.

Being loved a long time. – Coleridge.