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With delay; slowly; tediously.

sing; -- used of time, as day or night, in adverbial phrases, and usually with a sense of tediousness. The obscure bird Clamored the livelong night. Shak. How could she sit the livelong day, Yet never ask us once to play Swift.

Long-breathed; hence, tediously long in speaking; consuming much time; as, a long-winded talker. -- Long"-wind"ed*ness, n. A tedious, long-winded harangue. South.

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.

Cloying; fulsome. He had a tedious, luscious way of talking. Jeffrey.

Long and tedious talk without much substance; superfluity of words.

Very painful or tedious; wearisome; as, a sermon lasting two mortal hours. [Colloq.] Sir W. Scott. Mortal foe, Mortal enemy, an inveterate, desperate, or implacable enemy; a foe bent on one's destruction.

ne of the vexatious mortifications of a studious man to have his thoughts discovered by a tedious visit. L'Estrange.

Wrought with labor; requiring labor; hence, tedious; wearisome. "Operose proceeding." Burke. "A very operose calculation." De Quincey. -- Op"er*ose`ly, adv. -- Op"er*ose`ness, n.

A tedious and wearisome time. In prison hast thou spent a pilgrimage. Shak.

Dull; tedious; uninteresting. [Colloq.]

Indulging in protracted discourse; tedious; wearisome; -- applied to a speaker or writer.

Dilatory; tedious; superfluous. [Obs.] "Lay by all nicety, and prolixious blushes." Shak.

To write or repeat in a dull, tedious, or prosy way.

One who talks or writes tediously. Sir W. Scott.

The quality or state of being prosy; tediousness; tiresomeness.

Writing prose; speaking or writing in a tedious or prosy manner. Sir W. Scott.

Dull and tedious in discourse or writing; prosaic.

Tedious continuance or delay. [Obs.] Spenser.

Observant of nice points; punctilious; precise. Punctual to tediousness in all that he relates. Bp. Burnet. So much on punctual niceties they stand. C. Pitt.