adv. (a.) Also 6–7 longst wise. [f. LONG a. + -WISE.] Lengthwise, longitudinally, longways.

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1544.  W. Patten, Exped. Scotl., C ij. Dunbar, a toun stonding longwise vpon ye seasyde.

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1580.  Blundeville, Curing Horses Dis., 54. Laurentius Russius would haue the splent to be cured by fiering it longst wise & ouerthwart.

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1657.  R. Ligon, Barbadoes (1673), 67. That kernel … as our Hazle-nuts in England, will part in the middle long-wise.

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1715.  Leoni, Palladio’s Archit. (1742), I. 86. Upon which … are laid other beams longwise.

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1848.  Dickens, Dombey, xxii. Standing it [a letter] long-wise and broad-wise on his table. Ibid. (1865), Mut. Fr., I. xvi. Too much of him longwise, too little of him broadwise, and too many sharp angles of him anglewise.

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  † b.  Used as adj.: Oblong. Obs. rare.

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1600.  Holland, trans. Marlianus’ Topogr. Rome, 1348. The Viminall hill…. The forme thereof is longwise [L. oblongam].

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