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To lengthen; to extend; to stretch; as, to elongate a line.

The act of lengthening, or the state of being lengthened; protraction; extension. "Elongation of the fibers." Arbuthnot.

Lengthwise; along. [Archaic] The doors were all of adamants eterne, I-clenched overthwart and endelong With iron tough. Chaucer. He pricketh endelong the large space. Chaucer. To thrust the raft endlong across the moat. Sir W. Scott.

Before the ere long. A man, . . . following the stag, erelong slew him. Spenser. The world, erelong, a world of tears must weep. Milton.

See Daddy longlegs, 2.

; 115), adv. With the flat side downward; not edgewise. Shak.

imp. & p. p. of Fling.

A measure of length; the eighth part of a mile; forty rods; two hundred and twenty yards.

With the head foremost; as, to fall headlong. Acts i. 18.

A fruit bat, esp. the Indian edible fruit bat (Pteropus edulis).

Lasting or continuing through life. Tennyson.

Whole; entire; long in passing; -- 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.

See Muskellunge.

Lasting all night.

A rectangular figure longer than it is broad; hence, any figure longer than it is broad. The best figure of a garden I esteem an oblong upon a descent. Sir W. Temple.

Between oblong and ovate, but inclined to the latter.

The medulla oblongata. B. G. Wilder.

Of or pertaining to the medulla oblongata; medullar.

Somewhat oblong.

In an oblong form.