I JO a dichorittry. -^"S- I» 



2. It is likewise employed to denote tire perpendicular 

 height of vegetabks j and irs tliis case it is nearly synony- 

 »ous with high, Ste IIi^ji. 



3i It can in no case be employed to exprefs tlie height- 

 of merely inanimate objects. We can never say a tall 

 steeple, toiver, or fhiiur, but a high steeple, tower, &.c. Foi 

 th'- di' ioctions i.i these case«, see High. 



Long, adj. A relative term, denoting the distance be- 

 tween the extremes of any body, which is extended more 

 in one of its geometrical dimensions than another : op- 

 pcsed Xajhort. 



This term' may be applied to all inanimate objects 

 whose dimensions in one way exceed the other, and 

 when not in an erect posture, whate/er be the other 

 circumiitances attending themj whether it relates to 

 superficies alone, or to solid bodie., whether these be 

 bounded or open, straight or crooked, flexible or rigid, 

 or in any. other circumstances whatever ; thus we say 

 a long ox Jhort lane, a long ox Jhort ridge, street, ditch, rope, 

 chair., sta^:, &c. But it is to be- observed, that although 

 long is, in the strict sense, only opposed to Jhort, yet, 

 as it exprefses the extension of matter in one of 

 its geometrical proportions, it is often contrasted by 

 those words which exprefs the other diratnsions, when 

 we mean only to describe the several proportions j as « 

 table long and broad. And as these several dimensions are 

 exprcfsed by different words, according to their various 

 forms, modincations, and circumstances, in which the bodies 

 are ""ound, therefore it is in this sense contrasted by a 

 great diversity of terms, as a long and bri.aa or nxside, nar- 

 row or strait street or lane ; a long and thick, or snail rope, 

 chain, staff". For the distinctions in thee cases, see Broad, 

 Wide, ^d'c. 



2. Objects necefsavily fixed in an erect position, can 

 never have this term applied to them j and therefore we 



