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To last longer than; to outlast; as, this cloth will outwear the other. "If I the night outwear." Pope.

n the direction of the shorter diameter will be circular, and any in the direction of the longer diameter will be oval.

-- sometimes restricted in popular usage to a rectangle, or quadrilateral figure which is longer than it is broad, and with right angles. Parallelogram of velocities, forces, accelerations, momenta, etc. (Mech.), a parallelogram the diagonal of which represents the resultant of two velocities, forces, accelerations, mo…

he plebeian order; later, one who, by right of birth or by special privilege conferred, belonged to the nobility.

A woman's cape; especially, a fur cape that is longer in front than behind.

Having a tapered tail, with the middle feathers longest; -- said of birds.

Having the longer axis inclined away from the vertical line.

A textile fabric with a nap or shag on one side, longer and softer than the nap of velvet. Cowper.

red to their former state when coming again under the power of the nation to which they belonged. Kent.

distinction from the Sanskrit, which was used as a literary and learned language when no longer spoken by the people. Pali is one of the Prakrit dialects.

of, beforehand; to form a previous notion or idea of. In a dead plain the way seemeth the longer, because the eye hath preconceived it shorter than the truth. Bacon.

riton prince and faery knight, . . . Of the fair Alma greatly were procured To make there longer sojourn and abode. Spenser.

Capable of being extended or prolonged; extensible; ductile.

olong one's days. Prolong awhile the traitor's life. Shak. The unhappy queen with talk prolonged the night. Dryden.

Capable of being prolonged; as, life is prolongable by care. Each syllable being a prolongable quantity. Rush.

e may exist without a proportionable degree of wisdom. Burke. Proportionable, which is no longer much favored, was of our [i. e., English writers'] own coining. Fitzed. Hall.

Prolonged; continued. Protracted meeting,a religious meeting continued for many successive days. [U. S.] -- Pro*tract"ed*ly, adv. -- Pro*tract"ed*ness, n.

ctions into which the Athenian senate of five hundred was divided, and to each of which belonged the presidency of the senate for about one tenth of the year.

The period during which the presidency of the senate belonged to the prytanes of the section.

cate; as, to put out the ankle. (k) To cause to cease playing, or to prevent from playing longer in a certain inning, as in base ball. -- To put over. (a) To place (some one) in authority over; as, to put a general over a division of an army. (b) To refer. For the certain knowledge of that knowledge of that truthput y…