<3J8 LON 
LO'NER, a town of Kindooftan, in Baglana ; fixteen 
miles north-weft of Chander. 
LO'NESOME, adj. Solitary; difmal: 
You either muft the earth from reft difturb, 
Or roll around the heavens the folar orb ; 
Elfe what a dreadful face will nature wear ! 
How horrid will thefe lonefome feats appear ! Blackman. 
LO'NERSLATT, a town of Bavaria: fourteen miles 
fouth-fouth-weft of Bamberg. 
LONFEL/DF.N, a town of Auftria : fix miles weft of 
Freiftatt. 
LONG, adj. [Fr. from longus, Lat.] Not fhort: ufed 
of time.—He talked a long while, even till break of day. 
ABs xx.— He was defirous to fee him of a long feafon. 
Lukexx iii.—Not fhort: ufed offpace.—Emp’refs, the way 
is ready, and not long. Milton. —Having one of its geome¬ 
trical dimenfions in a greater degree than either of the 
other.—His branches became long becaufe of the waters. 
Ezekiel. —Of any certain meafure in length.—Shall women 
«at their children of a fpan long f Lam. ii. 20. 
The fig-tree fpreads her arms, 
Branching fo broad and long. Milton. 
Not foon ceafing, or at an end.—Man goeth to his long 
home. Ecclef. xii. 5. —Honour thy father and thy mother, 
that thy days may be long upon the land. Exodus xx. 12 . 
They open to themfelves at length a way 
Up hither, under long obedience try’d. Milton. 
Him after long debate of thoughts revolv’d 
Irrefolute, his final fentence chofe. Milton. 
Dilatory.—Death will not be long in coming, and the co¬ 
venant of the grave is not fliowed unto thee. Eccius. xiv. 
a 1 .—Tedious in narration. 
Reduce, my mufe, the wand’ring fong, 
A tale fhould never be too long. Prior. 
Continued by fucceftion to a great feries.—But firft r. long 
fucceftion muft enfue. Milten. — [From the verb To long. ] 
Longing; defirous : or perhaps long-continued, from the 
clifpofition to continue looking at any thing defired.— 
Praying for him, and cafting a long look that way, he faw 
the galley leave the purfuit. Sidney. 
By ev’ry circumftance I know he loves; 
Yet he but doubts, and parlies, and calls out 
Many a long look for luccour. Dryden. 
[In niufic and pronunciation.] ProtraCled: as, A long 
note ; a long fyliable. 
LONG, adv. To a great length in fpace: 
The marble brought, ereCts the fpacious dome. 
Or forms the pillars /sH^-extended rows, 
On which the planted grove and penfile garden grows. Prior. 
Not for a fhort time.—When the trumpet foundeth long, 
they ftiall come up to the mount. Exodus xix. 13 . 
So flood the pious prince unmov’d, and long 
Suftain’d the madnefs of the noify throng. Dryden. 
In the comparative, it fignifies for more time ; and in 
the fuperlative, for moft time.—When file could not longer 
hide him, fhe took for him an ark of bullrufhes. Exodus ii. 
3. —Eldeft parents fignifies either the eldeft men and wo¬ 
men that have had children, or thole who have longejl had 
Blue. Locke. —Not foon.—Not long after there arofe againft 
it a tempeftuous wind. ABs xxvii. 14. —At a point of du¬ 
ration far diftant.—If the world had been eternal, thofe 
would have been found in it, and generally fpread long 
ago, and beyond the memory of all ages. Tillotfon. 
Say, that you once were virtuous long ago ? 
A frugal, hardy people. Philips. 
[For along; au long, Fr.] All along; throughout: of 
time.—Forty years long was I grieved with this genera¬ 
tion. PJaltns, 
LON 
Some fay, that ever ’gainft that feafon comes. 
Wherein our Saviour’s birth is celebrated, 
The bird of dawning fingeth all night long. Shakefptare. 
LONG, adv. [^elang, Sax. a fault.] By the fault; by 
the failure. Out of ufe. —If we owe it to him that we 
know fo much, it is perhaps long of his fond adorers that 
we know fo little more. Glanville. 
Maine, Blois, Poicliers, and Tours, are won away, 
Long all of Somerfet, and his delay. Shakefpeare. 
LONG, f. in mufic, a character for time in the firft 
time-table, half the duration of the maxima , or large, and 
twice the length of the breve. See Music. 
To LONG, v.n, [ gelangen , Germ, to afk.] To defire 
earneflly ; to vvifh with eagernefs continued : with for or 
after before the thing defired.—If erft he vviflied, now he 
longed lore. Fairfax. —And thine eyes ihall look, and fail 
with longing for them. Deut. xxviii. 32.—Nicomedes, long¬ 
ing for herrings, was fupplied with frefit ones by his cook, 
at a great diliance from the fea. Arbuthnot. —The great 
mailer perceived, that Rhodes was the place the Turkilh 
tyrant longed after. Knolles, 
There’s the tie that binds you ; 
You long to call him father : Marcia’s charms 
Work in your heart unfeen, and plead for Cato. Addi/on 0 
His fons, who feek the tyrant to fuftain. 
And long for arbitrary lords again. 
He dooms to death deferv’d. Dryden . 
Frefh expectation troubled not the land 
With any long'd for change, or better Hate. Shakefpeare, 
To belong. — But wit’s ambition longeth to the beft. Daviesi 
But he me firft through pride and puiflance ftrong 
Aflayl’d, not knowing what to arms doth long. Spenfer. 
LONG, a city of China, of the fecond rank, in Quang- 
fi : 1195 miles fouth-fouth-weft of Pekin. Lat. 22.22. N. 
Ion.106.21. E. 
LONG, a city of China, of the fecond rank, in Chen- 
fi: 562 miles fouth-welt of Pekin. Lat. 34. 39. N. Ion. 
106. 32. E. 
LONG (Thomas), a learned divine, was born at Exeter 
in 1621, and educated at the college of that name in Ox¬ 
ford. His higheft preferment was a prebend in Exeter 
cathedral, of which he was deprived at the revolution for 
refufing the oaths. He died in 1700. He was author of 
many theological pieces; of a Life of Julian; Hiftory of 
all the Popilh and Fanatical Plots and Confpiracies ; and 
a Vindication of the Claim of King Charles I. to the Au- 
thorlhip of the Eikon Bafilike. 
LONG (James le), an induftrious and learned writer, 
was born at Paris in 1665. He occupied the poll of pro- 
fefior in feveral houfes of the fociety of the Oratory, and 
finally was appointed their librarian at St. Honore. He 
palled his life in learned labours, and died of a pulmo¬ 
nary diforder in 1721, with the character of a virtuous 
and eftimable man. Father le Long was well verfed in 
the ancient and in many modern languages, and had a 
thorough acquaintance with the hiftory of literature, of 
bibliography, and printing. When bantered for the pains 
he took in verifying a date, or inveftigating fome minute 
faCt, he would fay, “Truth is fo definable a thing, that no 
labour fhould be fpared in difeovering it, even in trifles.” 
With this difpofition, it is no wonder that he had no talle 
for poetry, and that his erudition was without amenity. 
Of his works, one of the principal is his Bibliotheca Sacra, 
containing a catalogue of all the editions and tranflations 
of the Scriptures, in 2 vols. 8vo. 1709 ; to which he fub- 
joined, in a fecond part, a lift of all the authors who had 
written upon the Scriptures: this was printed in anew 
edition after his death by father Delfnolets, his fucceftbr 
in the library, .in 2 vols. folio, 1723. It is accounted a 
very valuable performance, though not without miftakes. 
His Bibhotheque Hiforiquc dt la France, being an account of 
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