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longwise, adv. (a.)|ˈlɒŋwaɪz|
Also 6–7 longst wise.
[f. long a. + -wise.]
Lengthwise, longitudinally, longways.
1544W. Patten Exped. Scotl. C ij, Dunbar, a toun stonding longwise vpon y⊇ seasyde. 1580Blundeville Curing Horses Dis. 54 Laurentius Russius would haue the splent to be cured by fiering it longst wise & ouerthwart. 1657R. Ligon Barbadoes (1673) 67 That kernel..as our Hazle-nuts in England, will part in the middle long-wise. 1715Leoni Palladio's Archit. (1742) I. 86 Upon which..are laid other beams longwise. 1848Dickens Dombey xxii, Standing it [a letter] long-wise and broad-wise on his table. 1865― Mut. Fr. i. xvi, Too much of him longwise, too little of him broadwise, and too many sharp angles of him anglewise.
†b. Used as adj.: Oblong. Obs. rare.
1600Holland tr. Marlianus' Topogr. Rome 1348 The Viminall hill... The forme thereof is longwise [L. oblongam]. |