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To live beyond, or longer than; to survive. They live too long who happiness outlive. Dryden.

To go beyond in reigning; to reign through the whole of, or longer than. [R.] Spenser.

To remain sitting, or in session, longer than, or beyond the time of; to outstay.

To stay beyond or longer than. She concluded to outstay him. Mad. D' Arblay.

To last longer than; to outlast; as, this cloth will outwear the other. "If I the night outwear." Pope.

n the direction of the shorter diameter will be circular, and any in the direction of the longer diameter will be oval.

-- sometimes restricted in popular usage to a rectangle, or quadrilateral figure which is longer than it is broad, and with right angles. Parallelogram of velocities, forces, accelerations, momenta, etc. (Mech.), a parallelogram the diagonal of which represents the resultant of two velocities, forces, accelerations, mo…

A woman's cape; especially, a fur cape that is longer in front than behind.

Having the longer axis inclined away from the vertical line.

A textile fabric with a nap or shag on one side, longer and softer than the nap of velvet. Cowper.

distinction from the Sanskrit, which was used as a literary and learned language when no longer spoken by the people. Pali is one of the Prakrit dialects.

of, beforehand; to form a previous notion or idea of. In a dead plain the way seemeth the longer, because the eye hath preconceived it shorter than the truth. Bacon.

riton prince and faery knight, . . . Of the fair Alma greatly were procured To make there longer sojourn and abode. Spenser.

e may exist without a proportionable degree of wisdom. Burke. Proportionable, which is no longer much favored, was of our [i. e., English writers'] own coining. Fitzed. Hall.

cate; as, to put out the ankle. (k) To cause to cease playing, or to prevent from playing longer in a certain inning, as in base ball. -- To put over. (a) To place (some one) in authority over; as, to put a general over a division of an army. (b) To refer. For the certain knowledge of that knowledge of that truthput y…

f study in a seminary, college, etc, etc.; properly, a fourth part of the year, but often longer or shorter. (h) pl. (Mil.)

to conciliate anew; to restore to friendship; to bring back to harmony; to cause to be no longer at variance; as, to reconcile persons who have quarreled. Propitious now and reconciled by prayer. Dryden. The church [if defiled] is interdicted till it be reconciled [i.e., restored to sanctity] by the bishop. Chaucer. We…

a litigated issue. Wharton. -- Res judicata [L.] (Law), a thing adjudicated; a matter no longer open to controversy.

To keep back from execution; to reprieve. Forty days longer we do respite you. Shak.

resurrection of all the dead at the Day of Judgment. Nor after resurrection shall he stay Longer on earth. Milton.