Word Meanings - FURLONG - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A measure of length; the eighth part of a mile; forty rods; two hundred and twenty yards. (more info) prop., the length of a furrow; furh furrow + lang long. See Furrow,

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• LENGTHEN
  To extent in length; to make longer in extent or duration; as, to lengthen a line or a road; to lengthen life; -- sometimes followed by out. What if I please to lengthen out his date. Dryden.
• LENGTHFUL
  Long. Pope.
• EIGHTHLY
  As the eighth in order.
• MEASURER
  One who measures; one whose occupation or duty is to measure commondities in market.
• LENGTHINESS
  The state or quality of being lengthy; prolixity.
• FORTY
  Four times ten; thirtynine and one more. (more info) four + suff. -tig ten; akin to OS. fiwartig, fiartig, D. veertig, G. vierzig, Icel. fjörutiu, Sw. fyratio, Dan. fyrretyve, Goth. fidw. See
• MEASURELESS
  Without measure; unlimited; immeasurable. -- Meas"ure*less*ness, n. Syn. -- Boundless; limitless; endless; unbounded; unlimited; vast; immense; infinite; immeasurable. Where Alf, the sacred river ran, Through canyons measureless to man, Down to
• LENGTHWAYS; LENGTHWISE
  In the direction of the length; in a longitudinal direction.
• FURROWY
  Furrowed. Tennyson.
• FORTY-SPOT
  The Tasmanian forty-spotted diamond bird (Pardalotus quadragintus).
• HUNDREDER
  A person competent to serve on a jury, in an action for land in the hundred to which he belongs. 3. One who has the jurisdiction of a hundred; and sometimes, a bailiff of a hundred. Blount. Cowell. (more info) 1. An inhabitant or freeholder of
• TWENTY
  twintich, OS. tw, D. & LG. twintig, OHG. zweinzug, G. zwanzig, Goth. 1. One more that nineteen; twice; as, twenty men. 2. An indefinite number more or less that twenty. Shak. Maximilian, upon twenty respects, could not have been the man. Bacon.
• YARDSTICK
  A stick three feet, or a yard, in length, used as a measure of cloth, etc.
• MEASURE
  The space between two bars. See Beat, Triple, Quadruple, Sextuple, Compound time, under Compound, a., and Figure. The manner of ordering and combining the quantities, or long and short syllables; meter; rhythm; hence, a foot; as, a poem in iambic
• EIGHTH
  1. Next in order after the seventh. 2. Consisting of one of eight equal divisions of a thing. Eighth note , the eighth part of a whole note, or semibreve; a quaver.
• LENGTHILY
  In a lengthy manner; at great length or extent.
• LENGTHY
  Having length; rather long or too long; prolix; not brief; -- said chiefly of discourses, writings, and the like. "Lengthy periods." Washington. "Some lengthy additions." Byron. "These would be details too lengthy." Jefferson. "To cut short lengthy
• MEASURED
  Regulated or determined by a standard; hence, equal; uniform; graduated; limited; moderated; as, he walked with measured steps; he expressed himself in no measured terms. -- Meas"ured*ly, adv.
• LENGTH
  1. The longest, or longer, dimension of any object, in distinction from breadth or width; extent of anything from end to end; the longest line which can be drawn through a body, parallel to its sides; as, the length of a church, or of a ship; the
• FURROW
  voor, OHG. furuh, G. furche, Dan. fure, Sw. f, Icel. for drain, L. 1. A trench in the earth made by, or as by, a plow. 2. Any trench, channel, or groove, as in wood or metal; a wrinkle on the face; as, the furrows of age. Farrow weed a weed which
• IMMEASURED
  Immeasurable. Spenser.
• ADMEASURE
  To determine the proper share of, or the proper apportionment; as, to admeasure dower; to admeasure common of pasture. Blackstone. 2. The measure of a thing; dimensions; size. (more info) 1. To measure.
• REMEASURE
  To measure again; to retrace. They followed him . . . The way they came, their steps remeasured right. Fairfax.
• ALENGTH
  At full length; lenghtwise. Chaucer.
• OUTMEASURE
  To exceed in measure or extent; to measure more than. Sir T. Browne.
• UNDERFURROW
  To cover as under a furrow; to plow in; as, to underfurrow seed or manure.
• WATER MEASURE
  A measure formerly used for articles brought by water, as coals, oysters, etc. The water-measure bushel was three gallons larger than the Winchester bushel. Cowell.
• OVERMEASURE
  To measure or estimate too largely.
• WATER-FURROW
  To make water furrows in.
• HALF-LENGTH
  Of half the whole or ordinary length, as a picture.