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The state of being fozy; spiritlessness; dullness. [Scot.] [The Whigs'] foziness can no longer be concealed. Blackwood's.

of certain animals, growing thick on the skin, and distinguished from the hair, which is longer and coarser.

from the hoofs to the top of the head. Its neck is very long, and its fore legs are much longer than its hind legs.

manners; perfection of form. Grace in women gains the affections sooner, and secures them longer, than any thing else. Hazlitt. I shall answer and thank you again For the gift and the grace of the gift. Longfellow.

- said of a bird's tail when the outer feathers are shortest, and the others successively longer. Graduated tube, bottle, cap, or glass, a vessel, usually of glass, having horizontal marks upon its sides, with figures, to indicate the amount of the contents at the several levels. -- Graduated spring (Railroads), a com…

hen one can not see. We grope for the wall like the blind. Is. lix. 10. To grope a little longer among the miseries and sensualities ot a worldly life. Buckminster.

To hold one's self from proceeding; to hold up; to cease progress; to stop for a longer or shorter period; to come to a stop; to stand still.

at first hand, that is, from the producer, or when new; at second hand, that is, when no longer in the producer's hand, or when not new.

r sticks to, a person, place, or service; a dependent; one who adheres to others' society longer than he is wanted. Goldsmith.

ling the liver; a state of the lungs when gorged with effused matter, so that they are no longer pervious to the air.

he vertebral column evidently continued into the upper lobe of the tail, which is usually longer than the lower one, as in sharks.

bill in the two sexes, that of the male being sharp and straight, that of the female much longer and strongly curved.

Having the maxilla, or lower jaw, longer than the upper, as in the skimmer.

By attainder . . . the blood of the person attainted is so corrupted as to be rendered no longer inheritable. Blackstone. The eldest daughter of the king is also alone inheritable to the crown on failure of issue male. Blackstone. Inheritable blood, blood or relationship by which a person becomes qualified to be an hei…

Not according to reason; absurd; foolish. It seemed utterly irrational any longer to maintain it. I. Taylor.

and force them to disgorge their prey. The two middle tail feathers are usually decidedly longer than the rest. Called also boatswain, and marline-spike bird. The name is also applied to the skua, or Arctic gull (Megalestris skua).

(Atelodus keitloa). It has the posterior horn about as long as the anterior one, or even longer.

Longer; longest; -- obsolete compar. and superl. of long. Chaucer.

The longest, or longer, dimension of any object, in distinction from breadth or width; extent of anything from end to end; the longest line which can be drawn through a body, parallel to its sides; as, the length of a church, or of a ship; the length of a rope or line.

To extent in length; to make longer in extent or duration; as, to lengthen a line or a road; to lengthen life; -- sometimes followed by out. What if I please to lengthen out his date. Dryden.