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o 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.

Long. [Obs.] Pope.

In a lengthy manner; at great length or extent.

The state or quality of being lengthy; prolixity.

In the direction of the length; in a longitudinal direction.

Having length; rather long or too long; prolix; not brief; -- said chiefly of discourses, writings, and the like. "Lengthy periods." Washington. "Some lengthy additions." Byron. "These would be details too lengthy." Jefferson. "To cut short lengthy explanations." Trench.

At full length; lenghtwise. Chaucer.

A canvas for a portrait measuring 58 by 94 inches. The half bishop measures 45 of 56.

To lengthen. [Obs.]

Of half the whole or ordinary length, as a picture.

Representing the whole figure; -- said of a picture or statue. -- n.

From side to side; athwart; crosswise, or in a direction opposed to the length; quite over; as, a bridge laid across a river. Dryden. To come across, to come upon or meet incidentally. Freeman. -- To go across the country, to go by a direct course across a region without following the roads.

A dot at the right side of a note as an indication that its sound is to be lengthened one half. [R.]

aid only of organic cohesion of unlike parts. An anther is adnate when fixed by its whole length to the filament. Gray.

eiver. It is used in distillations, to give more space to elastic vapors, to increase the length of the neck of a retort, or to unite two vessels whose openings have different diameters. [Written also adapter.]

ables. The needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. Pope.

e having the entrance represented as wider than the exit, so as to give the appearance of length.

By the length; in a line with the length; lengthwise. Some laid along . . . on spokes of wheels are hung. Dryden.

In the middle of a ship, with regard to her length, and sometimes also her breadth. Totten.