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     2. Drawn out or extended in time; continued through a
        considerable tine, or to a great length; as, a long series
        of events; a long debate; a long drama; a long history; a
        long book.
  
     3. Slow in passing; causing weariness by length or duration;
        lingering; as, long hours of watching.
  
     4. Occurring or coming after an extended interval; distant in
        time; far away.
  
              The we may us reserve both fresh and strong Against
              the tournament, which is not long.    --Spenser.
  
     5. Extended to any specified measure; of a specified length;
        as, a span long; a yard long; a mile long, that is,
        extended to the measure of a mile, etc.
  
     6. Far-reaching; extensive. `` Long views.'' --Burke.
  
     7. (Phonetics) Prolonged, or relatively more prolonged, in
        utterance; -- said of vowels and syllables. See Short,
        a., 13, and Guide to Pronunciation, [sect][sect] 22, 30.
  
     Note: Long is used as a prefix in a large number of compound
           adjectives which are mostly of obvious meaning; as,
           long-armed, long-beaked, long-haired, long-horned,
           long-necked, long-sleeved, long-tailed, long- worded,
           etc.
  
     In the long run, in the whole course of things taken
        together; in the ultimate result; eventually.
  
     Long+clam+(Zo["o]l.),+the+common+clam+({Mya+arenaria" rel="nofollow">Long clam (Zo["o]l.), the common clam ({Mya arenaria) of
        the Northern United States and Canada; -- called also
        soft-shell clam and long-neck clam. See Mya.
  
     Long cloth, a kind of cotton cloth of superior quality.
  
     Long clothes, clothes worn by a young infant, extending
        below the feet.
  
     Long division. (Math.) See Division.
  
     Long dozen, one more than a dozen; thirteen.
  
     Long home, the grave.
  
     Long measure, Long mater. See under Measure, Meter.
        
  
     Long Parliament (Eng. Hist.), the Parliament which
        assembled Nov. 3, 1640, and was dissolved by Cromwell,
        April 20, 1653.
  
     Long price, the full retail price.
  
     Long purple (Bot.), a plant with purple flowers, supposed
        to be the Orchis mascula. --Dr. Prior.
  
     Long suit (Whist), a suit of which one holds originally
        more than three cards. --R. A. Proctor.
  
     Long tom.
        (a) A pivot gun of great length and range, on the dock of
            a vessel.
        (b) A long trough for washing auriferous earth. [Western
            U.S.]
        (c) (Zo["o]l.) The long-tailed titmouse.
  
     Long wall (Coal Mining), a working in which the whole seam
        is removed and the roof allowed to fall in, as the work
        progresses, except where passages are needed.
  
     Of long, a long time. [Obs.] --Fairfax.
  
     To be, or go, long of the market, To be on the long
     side of the market, etc. (Stock Exchange), to hold stock for
        a rise in price, or to have a contract under which one can
        demand stock on or before a certain day at a stipulated
        price; -- opposed to short in such phrases as, to be
        short of stock, to sell short, etc. [Cant] See Short.
  
     To have a long head, to have a farseeing or sagacious mind.