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Long

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.
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.
Slow in passing; causing weariness by length or duration; lingering; as, long hours of watching.
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.
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.
Far-reaching; extensive.
Prolonged, or relatively more prolonged, in utterance; -- said of vowels and syllables. See Short, a., 13, and Guide to Pronunciation, §§ 22, 30. (Phonetics)
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. (Finance & Com.)

In the long run: in the whole course of things taken together; in the ultimate result; eventually.
Long clam: 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: See Division.
Long dozen: one more than a dozen; thirteen.
Long home: the grave.
Long measure: See under Measure, Meter.
Long Parliament: the Parliament which assembled Nov. 3, 1640, and was dissolved by Cromwell, April 20, 1653.
Long price: the full retail price.
Long purple: a plant with purple flowers, supposed to be the Orchis mascula.
Long suit: a suit of which one holds originally more than three cards.
Long tom: A pivot gun of great length and range, on the dock of a vessel.
Long wall: 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.
To be long of the market: 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.
To have a long head: to have a farseeing or sagacious mind.

A note formerly used in music, one half the length of a large, twice that of a breve. (Mus.)
A long sound, syllable, or vowel. (Phonetics)
The longest dimension; the greatest extent; -- in the phrase, the long and the short of it, that is, the sum and substance of it.

adv.

To a great extent in space; as, a long drawn out line.
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.
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.
Through the whole extent or duration.
The bird of dawning singeth all night long.
— Shak.
Through an extent of time, more or less; -- only in question; as, how long will you be gone?

prep.

v. i.

imp. & p. p. Longed; p. pr. & vb. n. Longing

To feel a strong or morbid desire or craving; to wish for something with eagerness; -- followed by an infinitive, or by for or after.
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.
To belong; -- used with to, unto, or for. [Obs.]
The labor which that longeth unto me.
— Chaucer.