livelong

2 definitions found

livelong - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Livelong \Live"long`\, a. [For lifelong. Cf. Lifelong.]
     1. Whole; entire; long in passing; -- used of time, as day or
        night, in adverbial phrases, and usually with a sense of
        tediousness.
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              The obscure bird
              Clamored the livelong night.          --Shak.
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              How could she sit the livelong day,
              Yet never ask us once to play?        --Swift.
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     2. Lasting; durable. [Obs.]
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              Thou hast built thyself a livelong monument.
                                                    --Milton.
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livelong - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  livelong
      adj 1: (of time) constituting the full extent or duration; "all
             the livelong day"
      n 1: perennial northern temperate plant with toothed leaves and
           heads of small purplish-white flowers [syn: orpine,
           orpin, livelong, live-forever, Sedum telephium]