Word Meanings - LONGSOME - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Extended in length; tiresome. Bp. Hall. Prior. -- Long"some*ness, n. Fuller.

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• PRIORSHIP
  The state or office of prior; priorate.
• 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.
• EXTENDLESSNESS
  Unlimited extension. An . . . extendlessness of excursions. Sir. M. Hale.
• FULLER
  One whose occupation is to full cloth. Fuller's earth, a variety of clay, used in scouring and cleansing cloth, to imbibe grease. -- Fuller's herb , the soapwort , formerly used to remove stains from cloth. -- Fuller's thistle or weed
• EXTENDANT
  Displaced. Ogilvie.
• LENGTHINESS
  The state or quality of being lengthy; prolixity.
• EXTEND
  To value, as lands taken by a writ of extent in satisfaction of a debt; to assign by writ of extent. Extended letter , a letter, or style of type, having a broader face than is usual for a letter or type of the same height. Note: This is extended
• PRIORITY
  1. The quality or state of being prior or antecedent in time, or of preceding something else; as, priority of application. 2. Precedence; superior rank. Shak. Priority of debts, a superior claim to payment, or a claim to payment before others.
• EXTENDIBLE
  Liable to be taken by a writ of extent. (more info) 1. Capable of being extended, susceptible of being stretched, extended, enlarged, widened, or expanded.
• LENGTHWAYS; LENGTHWISE
  In the direction of the length; in a longitudinal direction.
• PRIORATE
  The dignity, office, or government, of a prior. T. Warton.
• PRIORESS
  A lady superior of a priory of nuns, and next in dignity to an abbess.
• 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
• FULLERY
  The place or the works where the fulling of cloth is carried on.
• EXTENDEDLY
  In an extended manner.
• 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
• PRIORY
  A religious house presided over by a prior or prioress; -- sometimes an offshoot of, an subordinate to, an abbey, and called also cell, and obedience. See Cell, 2. Note: Of such houses there were two sorts: one where the prior was chosen by the
• TIRESOME
  Fitted or tending to tire; exhausted; wearisome; fatiguing; tedious; as, a tiresome journey; a tiresome discourse. -- Tire"some*ly, adv. -- Tire"some*ness, n.
• SUBPRIOR
  The vicegerent of a prior; a claustral officer who assists the prior.
• ALENGTH
  At full length; lenghtwise. Chaucer.
• APRIORISM
  An a priori principle.
• HALF-LENGTH
  Of half the whole or ordinary length, as a picture.
• BISHOP'S LENGTH
  A canvas for a portrait measuring 58 by 94 inches. The half bishop measures 45 of 56.
• COEXTEND
  To extend through the same space or time with another; to extend to the same degree. According to which the least body may be coextended with the greatest. Boyle. Has your English language one single word that is coextended through all
• APRIORITY
  The quality of being innate in the mind, or prior to experience; a priori reasoning.