1792. ' a dictiomry. 151 



cannot say ff long, but a high sieefAe or tower. And for the 

 s»me reason, while trees are growing, and fixed in an 



• erect position, we .cannot apply this term to them ; but 

 •when they are felled and laid aapon the ground, it is quite 

 proper and necefsary. Thus we do not say a long, but a tall 

 or high tree, while.it is growing;.but we say xlorig, not a tall 

 lag of wood ; and in the same manner we say a tall maxt, 

 when it is fix«sd in the (hip \ vbut along w/i>fi:,. while it lies 

 upon the beach. iSee Tall and High. 

 ^3. Thost vegetables which are of a tender ^pliant na- 



■ ture, or so weak as not to be able to retain a fixed posi- 

 tion, being considered as of a middle nature between e- 

 rect and prostrate bodies, -admit of either of the terms, 

 long, tall, vr high : <asa leng or tall ru(hj or willow wand; 

 or a long ta/l, -or high stalk of corn. See HigH' and Tall. 



4. The parts of vegetables when considered as distinct 

 from the whole, even when growiug and erect, afsume the 

 term long •, for we do not< say a tall, but a long Jhoot 

 if a tree; and a tree with- a longattm^ in preference to a 

 tree with a high stem. 



5. For the same reason, a staff and, pele,, even when fix- 

 ed in a perpendicular direction, afsume the word long in 

 preference to tall or high. 



6. With regard to-animals, the general rule is applied 

 \^!thout exception J t-all, and not long, being employed to 

 denote the •height of the human •body, when in an erect 

 posture j long, and not- tall, to denote •its length, when in 

 an incumbent situation. Long, applied^o all other ani- 

 naals which xlo not walk, erect, always denotes their great- 

 est length, in an horizontal position, from head to tail. 



7. In a figurative sense it denotes, with regard to time, 

 any thing at a great distance from us. 



8. As also any thing that takes up much time before it 

 is finiflied-,- as a long discourse^ ox. protracted noic in mu^ 



. jicj.Sic. 



