adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In a longitudinal direction; in the direction of the length of an object; lengthways.
1724. in Bailey.
1779. Mrs. Boscawen, in Mrs. Delany’s Lett., Ser. II. II. 489. The seeds are … somewhat flat, and situated longitudinally.
1787. Linnæus’ Fam. Plants, I. 4. Style … slit longitudinally.
1834. Mrs. Somerville, Connex. Phys. Sci., xvii. (1849), 159. The air also vibrates longitudinally.
1868. Rep. to Govt. U.S. Munitions War, App. 284. The locking device combined with a longitudinally moving breech-block.
1870. Rolleston, Anim. Life, 15. The longitudinally-fissured … pancreas.
1880. Haughton, Phys. Geog., vi. 303. A broad band of latitude, extending longitudinally from the Pyrenees to the east Coast of China.
1897. Mary Kingsley, W. Africa, 540. His body … was slit all over longitudinally with long cuts on the face, head, legs, and arms.
