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Slow in passing; causing weariness by length or duration; lingering; as, long hours of watching.

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

ls, fever, and sweating in distinct paroxysms, At intervals of definite and often uniform duration, in which these symptoms are wholly absent (intermittent fever), or only partially so (remittent fever); fever and ague; chills and fever.

An instrument attached to a locomotive for recording its speed and the number and duration of its stops.

The state or quality of being momentary; shortness of duration.

Morse. The Alphabetic code which is in use in North America is given below. In length, or duration, one dash is theoretically equal to three dots; the space between the elements of a letter is equal to one dot; the interval in spaced letters, as O . ., is equal to three dots. There are no spaces in any letter composed…

Great in quantity; long in duration; as, much rain has fallen; much time. Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather but little in. Deut. xxviii. 38.

he plant grows in rich pastures and is proverbial for rapidity of growth and shortness of duration. It has a pleasant smell, and is largely used as food. It is also cultivated from spawn.

An instrument for determining and registering the duration of more or less complex operations of the mind. Dunglison.

To exceed in duration; to survive; to endure longer than. Milton.

The quality or state of being permanent; continuance in the same state or place; duration; fixedness; as, the permanence of institutions; the permanence of nature.

Duration without limitations as to time.

hosphorescence produced in different bodies by the action of light, and for measuring its duration.

In a potential manner; possibly, not positively. The duration of human souls is only potentially infinite. Bentley.

Infinite previous duration. [R.] "The world's preëternity." Cudworth.

A mediæval method of determining of the proportionate duration of semibreves and minims. Busby.

To lengthen in time; to extend the duration of; to draw out; to continue; as, to prolong one's days. Prolong awhile the traitor's life. Shak. The unhappy queen with talk prolonged the night. Dryden.

The act of counting in duration; prolongation. [Obs.] South.

The art of measuring the duration of mental processes, or of determining the time relations of mental phenomena. -- Psy`cho*met"ric, a.

aut.), hammock nettings along the quarter rails. -- Quarter note (Mus.), a note equal in duration to half a minim or a fourth of semibreve; a crochet. -- Quarter pieces (Naut.), several pieces of timber at the after- part of the quarter gallery, near the taffrail. Totten. -- Quarter point. (Naut.) See Quarter, n., 1…