society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > copiousness > [noun] > prolixity > one who (2)
figurative and in figurative contexts, with reference to prolonging or spinning out a matter or subject. Cf. wire-draw, v. 2. Obsolete.
the name of (the type of) an untrustworthy messenger whose messages are never delivered or take an inordinately long time (originally and chiefly in…