Word Meanings - LONGER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who longs for anything.

LONGSPUN
Spun out, or extended, to great length; hence, long-winded; tedious. The longspun allegories fulsome grow, While the dull moral lies too plain below. Addison.
LONGSOME
Extended in length; tiresome. Bp. Hall. Prior. -- Long"some*ness, n. Fuller.
LONGSHORE
Belonging to the seashore or a seaport; along and on the shore. "Longshore thieves." R. Browning.
LONGSPUR
Any one of several species of fringilline birds of the genus Calcarius , and allied genera. The Lapland longspur , the chestnut-colored longspur , and other species, inhabit the United States.
ANYTHINGARIAN
One who holds to no particular creed or dogma.
LONGSHANKS
The stilt.
LONGSHOREMAN
One of a class of laborers employed about the wharves of a seaport, especially in loading and unloading vessels.
ANYTHING
1. Any object, act, state, event, or fact whatever; thing of any kind; something or other; aught; as, I would not do it for anything. Did you ever know of anything so unlucky A. Trollope. They do not know that anything is amiss with them. W. G.
ALONGSIDE
Along or by the side; side by side with; -- often with of; as, bring the boat alongside; alongside of him; alongside of the tree.
ALONGSHORE
Along the shore or coast.
ALONGST
Along.
ALONGSHOREMAN
See LONGSHOREMAN