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To extend in space or length; as, to prolong a line.

Capable of being prolonged; as, life is prolongable by care. Each syllable being a prolongable quantity. Rush.

To prolong; to extend in space or in time. [R.]

The act of lengthening in space or in time; extension; protraction. Bacon.

A rope with a hook and a toggle, sometimes used to drag a gun carriage or to lash it to the limber, and for various other purposes.

One who, or that which, causes an extension in time or space.

Prolongation.

an play. Campbell. Æolian attachment, a contrivance often attached to a pianoforte, which prolongs the vibrations, increases the

moeba. Amoeboid movement, movement produced, as in the amoeba, by successive processes of prolongation and retraction.

as an historian, an artist, or an orator. Will he now retire, After appearance, and again prolong Our expectation Milton.

Also used of the body only of the vertebra, which is prolonged anteriorly within the foramen of the first vertebra or atlas, so as to form the odontoid process or peg which serves as a pivot for the atlas and head to turn upon.

Prolonged at the base, as certain leaves.

A loud, prolonged cry; an outcry.

Deep-toned, prolonged barking. "The bay of curs." Cowper.

tera. (d) The upper or projecting part of the shell, near the hinge of a bivalve. (e) The prolongation of certain univalve shells containing the canal.

rily broken; but when perfect it contains a small chambered cone, called the phragmocone, prolonged, on one side, into a delicate concave blade; the thunderstone. It is the internal shell of a cephalopod related to the sepia, and belonging to an extinct family. The belemnites are found in rocks of the Jurassic and Cret…

A slender prolongation of the receptacle as an axis between the carpels, as in Geranium and many umbelliferous plants.

e or Devonian formation. The head is large, and protected by a broad shield-shaped helmet prolonged behind into two lateral points.

Continuing; prolonged; sustained; as, a continuant sound. -- n.

state of continuing; the state of being continued; uninterrupted extension or succession; prolongation; propagation. Preventing the continuation of the royal line. Macaulay.