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   Long , 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.]
   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.
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   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.
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   Slow in passing; causing weariness by length or duration; lingering; as, long hours of watching.
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   Occurring or coming after an extended interval; distant in time; far away.
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   The we may us reserve both fresh and strong
   Against the tournament, which is not long.
   Spenser.
   
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   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.
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   Far-reaching; extensive. “ Long views.” 
   Burke.
   
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   (Phonetics) Prolonged, or relatively more prolonged, in utterance; -- said of vowels and syllables. See Short, a., 13, and Guide to Pronunciation, §§ 22, 30.
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   (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.
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   ☞ 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.
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   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.
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   Long , n.
   (Mus.) A note formerly used in music, one half the length of a large, twice that of a breve.
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   (Phonetics) A long sound, syllable, or vowel.
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   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.
   
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   Long, adv. [AS. lance.]
   To a great extent in space; as, a long drawn out line.
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   To a great extent in time; during a long time.
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   They that tarry long at the wine.
   Prov. xxiii. 30.
   
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   When the trumpet soundeth long.
   Ex. xix. 13.
   
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   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.
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   Through the whole extent or duration.
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   The bird of dawning singeth all night long.
   Shak.
   
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   Through an extent of time, more or less; -- only in question; as, how long will you be gone?
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   Long, prep. [Abbreviated fr. along. See 3d Along.] By means of; by the fault of; because of. [Obs.] See Along of, under 3d Along.
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   Long, 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.]
   To feel a strong or morbid desire or craving; to wish for something with eagerness; -- followed by an infinitive, or by for or after.
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   I long to see you.
   Rom. i. 11.
   
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   I have longed after thy precepts.
   Ps. cxix. 40.
   
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   I have longed for thy salvation.
   Ps. cxix. 174.
   
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   Nicomedes, longing for herrings, was supplied with fresh ones . . . at a great distance from the sea.
   Arbuthnot.
   
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   To belong; -- used with to, unto, or for. [Obs.]
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   The labor which that longeth unto me.
   Chaucer.
   
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