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- English Word Longiroster Definition One of the Longirostres.
- English Word Longirosters Definition of Longiroster
- English Word Longirostral Definition Having a long bill; of or pertaining to the Longirostres.
- English Word Longirostres Definition of Longiroster
- English Word Longirostres Definition A group of birds characterized by having long slender bills, as the sandpipers, curlews, and ibises. It is now regarded as an artificial division.
- English Word Longish Definition Somewhat long; moderately long.
- English Word Longitude Definition Length; measure or distance along the longest line; -- distinguished from breadth or thickness; as, the longitude of a room; rare now, except in a humorous sense.
- English Word Longitude Definition The arc or portion of the equator intersected between the meridian of a given place and the meridian of some other place from which longitude is reckoned, as from Greenwich, England, or sometimes from the capital of a country, as from Washington or Paris. The longitude of a place is expressed either in degrees or in time; as, that of New York is 74¡ or 4 h. 56 min. west of Greenwich.
- English Word Longitude Definition The distance in degrees, reckoned from the vernal equinox, on the ecliptic, to a circle at right angles to the ecliptic passing through the heavenly body whose longitude is designated; as, the longitude of Capella is 79¡.
- English Word Longitudinal Definition Of or pertaining to longitude or length; as, longitudinal distance.
- English Word Longitudinal Definition Extending in length; in the direction of the length; running lengthwise, as distinguished from transverse; as, the longitudinal diameter of a body.
- English Word Longitudinal Definition A railway sleeper lying parallel with the rail.
- English Word Longitudinally Definition In the direction of length.
- English Word Longlegs Definition A daddy longlegs.
- English Word Longly Definition With longing desire.
- English Word Longly Definition For a long time; hence, wearisomely.
- English Word Longmynd rocks Definition The sparingly fossiliferous conglomerates, grits, schists, and states of Great Britain, which lie at the base of the Cambrian system; -- so called, because typically developed in the Longmynd Hills, Shropshire.
- English Word Longness Definition Length.
- English Word Longnose Definition The European garfish.
- English Word Longshanks Definition The stilt.
- English Word Longshore Definition Belonging to the seashore or a seaport; along and on the shore.
- English Word Longshoreman Definition One of a class of laborers employed about the wharves of a seaport, especially in loading and unloading vessels.
- English Word Longshoremen Definition of Longshoreman
- English Word Longsome Definition Extended in length; tiresome.
- English Word Longspun Definition Spun out, or extended, to great length; hence, long-winded; tedious.
- English Word Longspur Definition Any one of several species of fringilline birds of the genus Calcarius (or Plectrophanes), and allied genera. The Lapland longspur (C. Lapponicus), the chestnut-colored longspur (C. ornatus), and other species, inhabit the United States.
- English Word Longtail Definition An animal, particularly a log, having an uncut tail. Cf. Curtail. Dog.
- English Word Longulite Definition A kind of crystallite having a (slender) acicular form.
- English Word Longways Definition Lengthwise.
- English Word Longwise Definition Lengthwise.