Longilateral
(Lon`gi*lat"er*al) a. [L. longus long + lateralis lateral, fr. latus side.] Having long sides; especially,
having the form of a long parallelogram.
Nineveh . . . was of a longilateral figure, ninety-five furlongs broad, and a hundred and fifty long.
Sir T.
Browne. Longiloquence
(Lon*gil"o*quence) n. [L. langus long + loquentia a talking.] Long- windedness.
American longiloquence in oratory.
Fitzed. Hall. Longimanous
(Lon*gim"a*nous) a. [L. longus long + manus hand.] Having long hands. Sir T. Browne.
Longimetry
(Lon*gim"e*try) n. [L. longus long + -metry: cf. F. longimétrie.] The art or practice of measuring
distances or lengths. Cheyne.
Longing
(Long"ing) n. An eager desire; a craving; a morbid appetite; an earnest wish; an aspiration.
Put on my crown; I have
immortal longings in me.
Shak. Longingly
(Long"ing*ly), adv. With longing. Dryden.
Longinquity
(Lon*gin"qui*ty) n. [L. longinquitas, fr. longinquus extensive, remote, fr. longus long.]
Greatness of distance; remoteness. [R.] Barrow.
Longipalp
(Lon"gi*palp) n. [F. longipalpe, fr. L. longus long + F. palpe a feeler, a palp.] (Zoöl.) One
of a tribe of beetles, having long maxillary palpi.
Longipennate
(Lon"gi*pen"nate) a. [L. longus long + E. pennate.] (Zoöl.) Having long wings, or quills.
Longipennes
(||Lon`gi*pen"nes) n. pl. [NL., from L. longus long + penna wing.] (Zoöl.) A group of
longwinged sea birds, including the gulls, petrels, etc.
Longipennine
(Lon`gi*pen"nine) a. (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to the Longipennes; longipennate.
Longiroster
(Lon`gi*ros"ter) n.; pl. L. Longirostres E. Longirosters [L. longus long + rostrum beak: cf.
F. longirostre.] (Zoöl.) One of the Longirostres.
Longirostral
(Lon`gi*ros"tral) a. (Zoöl.) Having a long bill; of or pertaining to the Longirostres.
Longirostres
(||Lon`gi*ros"tres) n. pl. [NL., fr. L. longus long + rostrum beak.] (Zoöl.) 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
(Long"ish) a. Somewhat long; moderately long.
Longitude
(Lon"gi*tude) n. [F., fr. L. longitudo, fr. longus long.]
1. 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. Sir H. Wotton.
The longitude of their cloaks.
Sir. W. Scott.
Mine [shadow] spindling into longitude immense.
Cowper. 2. (Geog.) 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
