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Having a long bill; of or pertaining to the Longirostres.

A group of birds characterized by having long slender bills, as the sandpipers, curlews, and ibises. It is now regarded as an artificial division.

Somewhat long; moderately long.

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.

Of or pertaining to longitude or length; as, longitudinal distance.

In the direction of length.

A daddy longlegs.

With longing desire. [Obs.] Shak.

The sparingly fossiliferous conglomerates, grits, schists, and states of Great Britain, which lie at the base of the Cambrian system; -- so called, because typically developed in the Longmynd Hills, Shropshire.

Length.

The European garfish.

The stilt.

Belonging to the seashore or a seaport; along and on the shore. "Longshore thieves." R. Browning.

One of a class of laborers employed about the wharves of a seaport, especially in loading and unloading vessels.

Extended in length; tiresome. [Obs.] Bp. Hall. Prior. -- Long"some*ness, n. [Obs.] Fuller.

Spun out, or extended, to great length; hence, long-winded; tedious. The longspun allegories fulsome grow, While the dull moral lies too plain below. Addison.

ingilline birds of the genus Calcarius (or Plectrophanes), and allied genera. The Lapland longspur (C. Lapponicus), the chestnut-colored longspur (C. ornatus), and other species, inhabit the United States.

An animal, particularly a log, having an uncut tail. Cf. Curtail. Dog.

A kind of crystallite having a (slender) acicular form.

Lengthwise. Addison.