adv. and prep. Now Sc. or dial. Also 5 longes, 6 Sc. langis, -ous, 9 Sc. langs. [f. LONG + adverbial s. Cf. MHG. langes some time before; Du. langs prep., along.]
† A. adv. Long (ago). Obs.
c. 1450. Lonelich, Grail, lii. 748. I Entrede Into ȝowre Castel Not longes Agon.
B. prep. Along, alongside.
[c. 1275. Lay., 19677. In langes [c. 1205 on longen] þane strete.]
1513. Douglas, Æneis, III. iv. 134. And, langis the channel,… The Actiane gemmis and sportis did assay. Ibid., VII. xii. 100. Thai that duellis langis the chyll river Of Anyene.
1535. Aberdeen Reg., XV. 639 (Jam.). Als gud hagyng throucht the cloiss & langous the hous syd.
18[?]. D. Nicolson, MS. Coll. Caithness Words (E.D.D.), Langs, along.
