elongt (elong)

t. [ Ne pulle it not, but goodly plaine elonge , Ne pitche it not to sore into the vale, Nor breke it not all doun aboute a dale. Palladius , Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 4. 2. To put far off; retard. 1882 ligaments. ( b ) The extension of a part beyond its natural dimensions. elongative (e-lông'ga-tiv), a. [ This elongative effort. Congregationalist , Oct. 22, 1885. elope (ē-lop'), v . i.; pret. and pp. eloped , ppr. eloping. [Formerly also ellope; E. lope, q. v.), = AS. hleápan, E. leap, q. v.] To run away; escape; break loose from legal or natural ties; specifically, to run away with a lover or paramour in defiance of duty or social restraints. But now, when Philtra saw my lands decay And former livelod fayle, she left me quight, And to my brother did ellope streight way. Spenser, F. Q., V. iv. 9. It is nece ary to treat women as members of the body politick, since great numbers of them have eloped from their allegiance. Add is on, Freeholder. Cawthorn , Nobility. Love and elope , as modern ladies do. Southey writes to his daughter Edith in 1824, "All the en at eleven o'clock on the preceding night." By sea, and hills elonged from thy sight, Thy wonted grace reducing to my mind, Instead of sleep thus I occupy the night. Upon the roof the bird of sorrow sat, Elonging ioyful day with her sad note. G. Fletcher, Christ's Triumph, ii. 24. elongate (e-lông'gat), v.; pret. and pp. elon gated , ppr. elongating . [ elongatus , pp. of elongare : see elong . ] I, trans . 1. To make long or longer; lengthen; extend, stretch, or draw out in length: as, to elongate a rope by splicing. Here the spire turns round a very elongated axis. W. B. Carpenter , Micros., § 465. 2t. To remove further off. The first star of Aries in the time of Meton the A then i an was placed in the intersection, which is now elongated and removed eastward twenty-eight degrees. Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err., iv. 13. II. in trans. To recede; move to a greater distance; particularly, to recede apparently from the sun, as a planet in its orbit. [Rare.] elongate (e-lông'gat), a . [ elongatus , pp.: see the verb.] Lengthened; extended or produced; attenuated; specifically, in zool . and bot . , disproportionately or comparatively long or extended: as, a worm has an elongate body; a proboscis is an elongate snout; elongate antennæ are about as long as the body of an insect; elongate elytra extend beyond the abdomen; an elongate flower-stem.