long Eliza

(For def. see extract.) "A correspondent writes to us from Holland: Long 7. Dilatory, slow; happening or occurring after a Elizas (the trade term for certain blue and white vases protracted interval. "Death will not be long in coming."- Ecclus .: xiv. 12. 8. Extending far into futurity; far-seeing; as, he has a long head. 9. Lingering, longing. (In this sense, perhaps, connected or confused with long , v.) "Praying for him, and casting a long look that way, he saw the galley leave the pursuit."- Sidney . B. As adverb: 1. To a great extent in space or distance; as, a line long drawn out. 2. To a great extent or amount of time. "He should not stay long in the place." - Hosea xiii. 18. 3. At a point of time far distant, either previously or in the future; as, long before, long after. 4. Throughout the whole extent or duration of. "The God which fed me all my life long unto this day." -Genesis xlviii. 15. 5. To a point of time in futurity. "How long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind?"- Job viii. 2. 6. For a greater, or the greatest length of time. (In the comparative and superlative.) "When she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes." - Exodus ii. 3. C. As substantive: ornamented with figures of tall thin China-women) is a name derived undoubtedly from the German or Dutch. Our sailors and traders called certain Chinese vases, from the figures which distinguish them, lange Lischen (=tall Lizzies), and the English sailors and traders promptly translated this into long Elizas . " - Pall Mall Gazette . long-field, s. Cricket: A term including long-field off and long field on (q. v.). Long - field off : Cricket: A fielder stationed behind and to the left of the bowler. Commonly contracted to long IMG:content-0700.png:[blocks in formation] Long-finned Whale : Zool.: Megaptera long i man a .