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Formerly, the largest boat carried by a merchant vessel, corresponding to the launch of a naval vessel.

a bow of about the height of a man, as distinguished from a much shorter one. To draw the longbow, to tell large stories.

A thrust. See Lunge. Smollett.

One who longs for anything.

Long-loved; longevous.[R.] Pope.

Long duration of life; length of life. The instances of longevity are chiefly amongst the abstemious. Arbuthnot.

Living a long time; of great age. Sir T. Browne.

The written characters used in the common method of writing; -- opposed to shorthand.

Having unusual foresight or sagacity. -- Long"-head`ed*ness, n.

A long-horned animal, as a cow, goat, or beetle. See Long- horned.

Long-horned; pertaining to the Longicornia. -- n.

A division of beetles, including a large number of species, in which the antennæ are very long. Most of them, while in the larval state, bore into the wood or beneath the bark of trees, and some species are very destructive to fruit and shade trees. See Apple borer, under Apple, and Locust beetle, under Locust.…

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.

Long-windedness. American longiloquence in oratory. Fitzed. Hall.

Having long hands. Sir T. Browne.

The art or practice of measuring distances or lengths. Cheyne.

ving; a morbid appetite; an earnest wish; an aspiration. Put on my crown; I have immortal longings in me. Shak.

With longing. Dryden.

Greatness of distance; remoteness. [R.] Barrow.

One of a tribe of beetles, having long maxillary palpi.