longanimous 
longanimous (long-gan'i-rnus), a. [< LL. '/- 
</<iitimi.<, piiti-nt, forbearing, < L. longun, long, + 
ititiiiin.1, uiiiul: see iniiiitnx. Cf. iiiiii/nniiiiiioiix. \ 
Long-suffering; patient; enduring. [Bare.] 
We have the present Yankee, . . . armed at all points 
against the old enemy Hunger, lonyaniaunu, good at patch- 
ing. Lowell, Biglow Papers, 1st ser., Int. 
long-arc (Idng'ilrk), (i. In elect., having u long 
arc: applied to an arc-lamp which burn* with 
the ends of the carbon roils at an abnormally 
great distance apart. 
longbeak (l&ng'bek)', n. A gnipo of the genus 
M'i<-rt>rlMHii>hitx ; a dowitcher: as, the greater 
Itmtjbrak, M. /tci>ti>ftri MX. 
longbeard (Idng'berd), . 1. A man with a 
long board. 2. A bellarmiue. 3. Same as 
/')</-/.. 
longbill (Idng'bil), n. A snipe or a woodcock. 
long-boat (l&ng'bot), . The largest and strong- 
est boat belonging to a sailing ship. It corre- 
sponds to the launch of a modern man-of-war. 
When he [the Duke of Suffolk] was shipped in Suffolk, 
with Intent to have passed over into France, he was met 
by an English Man of War, taken, and carried to Dover 
Sands, anil there had his Head ehopp'd off on the side of 
the Low-boat. llaker, Chronicles, p. 190. 
longbow (Idng'bo), . The name commonly 
given to the bow drawn by hand and discharg- 
ing a long feathered arrow, as distinguished 
from crossbows of all kinds, especially to bows 
having a length of five feet or over, as the bow 
of war and of the chase of the middle ages in 
Europe, those of some savage tribes, those of 
Japan, etc. The English especially excelled in the use 
of the longbow, as the principal weapon of the common 
soldier and of hunters, from the fourteenth century till 
the introduction of fin-arms, by which it was only gradual- 
ly superseded. To draw or pull the longbow, to exag- 
gerate ; tell improbable stories : in allusion to the wonder- 
ful stories formerly told of feats with the longbow. [In 
the phrase, often written a long bow. ] 
King of Corpus . . . was on the point of pulling some 
dreadful long-bow, and pointing out a half dozen of people 
in the room as ... the most celebrated wits of that day. 
Thackeray, Newcomes, L 
long-bowlingt (l&ng'boTing), n. The game of 
skittles. Halliwell. 
long-breathed (Idng'bretht), a. Having the 
power of retaining the breath for a long time; 
having good breath ; long-winded, 
long-bulletst (l&ng'bul'ets), n. A game played 
by casting stones. [North. Eng.] 
When you saw Tady at long-bullett play. 
Swift, Dermot and Sheelah. 
long-coats (Idng'kots), . pi. Long clothes: 
said of an infant's wear. [Eng.] 
Master Thomas Billings . . . was in his long-coats fear- 
fully passionate, screaming and roaring perpetually. 
Thackeray, Catherine, iii. 
long-descended (Idng' de-sensed), a. Able to 
trace one's descent through a long line of an- 
cestors ; of ancient lineage. 
long-drawn (long'dran), a. Drawn out or con- 
tinued to great length ; protracted ; prolonged : 
as, a long-drawn sigh or groan; a long-drnicn 
narrative. 
longest. '* and v. An obsolete form of lungel. 
longe 2 (lonj), . [Also lunge; deriv. uncertain.] 
The great lake-trout or Mackinaw trout, Cris- 
tivomer or Halvelinus namaycush. Also called 
toguc. [Local, U. S.] 
long-eared (16ng'erd), a. 1. Having long ears. 
2. Having long plumicorns: as, the long- 
eared owls. 3. Having long opercular flaps: 
as, the long-fared sunfish, Lepomis auritus or 
L. mcgalotis. Lone-eared bat, one of several bats 
whose ears are notablylong or large ; especially. Plecotux 
auritus, a common European species. See J'lecotus, Syno- 
tu&. Long-eared deer, the mule-deer, Cariacus macro- 
tit. Long-eared fox, the African Megalotii Inland!, a 
kind of fennec. See fennec, Mcgalotis. Long-eared 
hedgehog, Erinacewi auritut of Russia. Long-eared 
owl, any member of the genus Agio or Otug, as the Euro- 
pean A. otiM or the American A. mlsonianui. 
long-ears (Idng'erz), n. 1. A humorous name 
for a donkey. 2. The long-eared owl, Agio otus. 
[Berkshire, Eng.] 
longer 1 (16ng'er), . One who longs or desires. 
longer 2 (long'ger), n. [Appar. < longl + -er 1 ; 
or else < lon<fi, alongl, as being stored along 
the keelson (?).] Nant., a water-cask of pecu- 
liar shape, formerly used for stowing next to 
the keelson ; also, a row of such casks. 
longeval (lou-je'val), a. [< L. longasviis, aged 
(see longevous), 4- -?.] Long-lived. 
We envy the secular leisures of Methuselah, and are 
thankful that his biography at least (if written in the 
same lunyeval proportion) is irrecoverably lost to us. 
Lowell, Among my Books, 2d ser., p. 253. 
longevity (lon-jev'i-ti), . [=F. loii(ii'rite = 8f. 
longwidad = Pg. iongevidade = It. longevita, < 
001 
3611 
lAi.longirritti(t-)s,<. L. ?on<7<m<.i, aged: nee longe- 
vous.] 1. Long life; unusually prolonged life 
or existence. 
We shall single out the deer : upon concession a long- 
lived animal, and in Iniujctrity by many conceived to at- 
tain unto hundreds. Sir T. Krowne, Vulg. Err., Ui. 9. 
Such men . . . predict longevity to Pollok'B " Course of 
Time." If hippie, Ess. and Rev., I. 30. 
2. Length or duration of life; term of exis- 
tence: as, statistics of longcrity; the average 
longevity of the race. 
longevous (lon-je'vus), a. [= 8p. Pg. It. ton- 
iji'i-o, < L. long/ecus, of great age, aged, < L. lon- 
gus, long, + axum, age.] Living a long time; 
of great age. [Obsolete or rare.] 
[Cedar wood] Is lonyeixna and an evergreen. 
y. Oreu, CosraologU Sacra, iv. 8. 
long-exserted (Idng'ek-ser'ted), a. In ornith., 
projected far beyond some other part: said of 
a pair of tail-feathers when they protrude far 
beyond the rest, as the middle pair of a skua- 
gull or sawbill. Coues, 1872. 
long-faced (Idng'fast), . Having a long face, 
literally or figuratively; rueful-looking; doleful 
in appearance ; solemn. 
long-field (Idng'feld), . In cricket, a fielder 
stationed in one of the extreme corners of the 
bowler's end of the field, distinctively called 
long-field-off or long-off when on the bowler|s 
right, and long-field-on or long-on when on his 
left. 
long-firmed (16ng-find), a. Having long fins, 
as a fish, or flippers, as the finner whale. Long- 
tinned file-fish. Same i fool-fish, 2. 
longful (Idug'ful), a. [< longi + -ful.] Long; 
tedious. Halliwell. [Prov. Eng.j 
long-glass (Idng'glas), n. Same as ale-yard. 
longhand (16ng'hand), . Writing of the or- 
dinary form, as contradistinguished from short- 
hand or stenography. 
long-headed (16ng'hed'ed), a. 1 . Having a long 
head; in etlmol., dolichocephalic. 2. Shrewd; 
far-seeing; discerning: as, a long-headed man. 
[Colloq.] 
long-headedness (16ng ' bed ' ed - nes), . The 
quality of being long-headed ; shrewdness ; far- 
sightedness; discernment. 
Ulysses was the type of long-headedneM. 
Lowell, Study Windows, p. 126. 
longhorn (Idng'hdrn), n. 1. A tineid moth of 
the family Adelidte, as Adela viridetta, having 
very long antenna}. 2. A dipterous insect of 
the suborder Nemocera, such as tipularians or 
crane-flies. 3. A beetle of the group Longi- 
cornia; a longicorn. 
long-homed (long'hdmd), . 1. Having long 
horns : specifically applied to some breeds of 
domestic cattle. 2. Having long antennae; 
longicorn : as, long-horned grasshoppers. 
longi, . Plural of longus. 
longicaudate (lon-ji-kft'dat), a. [< L. longus, 
long, + caiula, tail.] Long-tailed ; macrurous. 
longicone (lon'ji-kon), a. [< L. longus, long, + 
conus, cone : see cone.] Having a long cone, as 
a cephalopod: as, the longicone straight shells. 
A. Hyatt. 
longicorn (Ion'ji-k6rn), a. and . [< NL. longi- 
cornis, long-horned, < L. longus, = E. long, + 
cornu = E. horn.] I. a. Having long anten- 
nae ; specifically, of or pertaining to the Longi- 
cornes or Longicornia. 
II. n. A longicorn beetle ; a member of the 
Longicornia. 
Longicomes (Ion-ji-k6r'nez), . pi. [NL., pL 
of longicornis, long-horned: see longicorn."} In 
Latreille's system of classification, the fourth 
family of the Coleoptera tetramera, approxi- 
mately the same as the modern group Longi- 
cornia, and divided primarily into Prionii and 
Cerambycini. Latreille included Tmenttermu in the 
latter, and also appended a third tribe, Lamiarve (Lamia, 
Sapffrda, etc.X and a fourth, Lepturetoe (Leptura, eto.X 
Longicornia (lon-ji-kor'ni-a), n. pi. [NL., neut. 
pi. of longicornis, long-horned: see longicorn."] 
A group of tetramerous Coleoptera, having long 
filiform antennee, sometimes several times long- 
er than the body ; the longicorns or longicoru 
beetles. In a few forms the antenna? are pectinate, ser- 
rate, or flabellif orm. More than 8,000 species are described, 
among them many large and beautiful beetles. They in- 
habit woods, where the females deposit their eggs beneath 
the bark of trees by means of a long, tubular, horny ovi- 
positor, with which the abdomen ends. The larvae are 
very destructive to wood, boring it deeply, and often mak- 
ing their burrows in every direction. Some of them attack 
the roots of plants. The longicorn beetles are very gen- 
erally dispersed, but the greatest number of species and 
the largest forms are found In South America and western 
Africa. The leading families are the Lamiidce, Cfratnby- 
cidce, Lepturidce, and Prionidie. 
longiperoneus 
longie, lungie (Ion'-, lun'ji), n. [Cf. 
loom'J, loon?.] The common guillemot, Lomvia 
troiii-. [Shetland Isles.] 
longifrons (lon'ji-fronz), a. [< NL. longifrons, 
< L. longiix, long, + frons (fron (-), forehead : see 
front.] In zool., long-faced. 
The black cattle of North Wales apparently belong . . . 
to the small lonmfrong type. 
Dartrin, Var. of Animals and Plants, p. :>. 
longilateral (lon-ji-lat'e-ral), a. [< L. longus, 
long, + Uitus (later-), side : see lateral.] Long- 
sided ; having the form of a long parallelogram. 
[Bare.] 
Nineveh . . . was of a longilateral figure, ninety-fire 
furlongs broad and an hundred and nf i y long. 
Sir T. Browne, Garden of Cyrus, ii. 
longilingual (lon-ji-ling'gwal), a. [< L. longus, 
long, + lingiiti, tongue!] In zoiil., having a long 
tongue; vermilingual. 
Longilingues (lon-ji-ling'gwez), n. nl. [NL. f 
< L. longux, long, T lingua, tongue.] In Sun- 
devall's classification of birds, a synonym of 
MclHsugo!. 
longimanous (lon-jim'a-nus), a. [< LL. lon- 
gimanus (tr. Or. /aucpd^fip, as an epithet of Ar- 
taxerxes), long-handed, < L. longus, long, + ma- 
nus, hand.] In zool., having long hands ; long- 
handed, as an ape. 
longimetric (lon-ji-met'rik), a. [< longimetr-y 
+ -ic.] Pertaining to measurement along a 
line. Longimetric function, the function to which a 
gouiometric function reduces when one of the angles of 
the triangle becomes zero or 180. 
longimetry (lon-jim'e-tri), n. [= F. longimf- 
trie = Sp. longimetria = Pg. It. longimetria, < 
L. longus, long, + Or. fitrpav, measure.] The art 
or practice of measuring distances or lengths, 
whether accessible or inaccessible. 
longing (Idng'ing), n. [Verbal n. of longl, p.] 
1 . An eager desire ; an earnest wish or crav- 
ing. 
Put on my crown ; I have 
Immortal lonyiny* in me. 
Shak., A. and C., v. 2. 284. 
I shall review Sicilla, for whose sight 
I have a woman's lonyintj. 
Shak., W. T.,iv. 4. 681. 
2. Specifically, in pathol., one of the peculiar 
and often whimsical desires experienced by 
pregnant women. =Syn. 1. Hankering, yeanling, aspi- 
ration. 
longingly (16ng'ing-li), adv. With eager desire 
or craving. 
longinqnity (lon-jing'kwi-ti), n. [= It. longin- 
quita, < L. lotiginquita( t-)s, length, < longinquus, 
remote, long, usually distant, < lotigus, long: 
see longi.] Greatness of distance. [Rare.] 
Pope Leo himself saw that lonainqvity of region doth 
cause the examination of truth to become over dilatory. 
Barraic, The Pope's Supremacy. 
Inordinate unvaried length, sheer longinquity, staggers 
the heart, ages the very heart of us at a view. 
Q. Meredith, The Egoist, Prel. 
longipalp (lon'ji-palp), a. and n. [< NL. longi- 
palj(i,\Ij. longus, long, + NL. palpus, a feeler: 
see palp.] I. a. Having long maxillary palps ; 
specifically, of or pertaining to the Longipalpi. 
II. . A member of the Longipalpi, as some 
of the rove-beetles. 
Longipalpi (lon-ji-pal'pi), n. pi. [NL., pi. of 
longipalpus: see longipalp.] In Latreille's sys- 
tem of classification, a section of the Linnean 
genus Staphylinus, having long maxillary palps, 
as in the genera Peederus, Procirrus, Stenus, and 
others. Also Longipalpati. 
Longipennatae (lon'ji-pe-na'te), n. pi. Same as 
Loni/ipennes, 1. 
longipennate (lon-ji-pen'at), a. [< NL. longi- 
peimatus, long-winged, < L. longus, long,+ pen- 
natus, winged: see pennate.] Long-winged, as 
a bird; having long pennae, remiges, or flight- 
feathers. 
Longipennes (lon-ji-pen'ez), w. pi. [NL., < L. 
longus, long, + penna, wing.] 1. A major 
group of birds, the long-winged natatorial 
birds, such as gulls, terns, and petrels: the 
Gavice and Tubinares together considered as 
an order. In Nitzsch's classification (1829) the term was 
applied only to the former, the Tubinarei being separated 
under the name of Xamttf. 
2. In Sundevall's system, a synonym of Cheli- 
donomorpha: 
longipennine (lon-ji-pen'in), a. [As Longipen- 
nes + -iiiel.] Longipennate; having the wings 
long enough to reach, when folded, beyond the 
end of the tail ; specifically, of or pertaining to 
the Longipennes. 
longiperoneus (lon-ji-per-o-ne'us), n.; pi. lon- 
giperonei (-i). [NL., < L. longus, long, + NL. 
