elong

English

Etymology

See eloign, elongate.

Verb

elong (third-person singular simple present elongs, present participle elonging, simple past and past participle elonged)

  1. (transitive, obsolete) To lengthen out; to prolong.
  2. (transitive, obsolete) To put away; to separate; to keep off.
    • c. 1527–1542, Thomas Wyatt, “Though this port: and I thy ſeruaunt true”, in Egerton MS 2711‎, page 53v:
      By Sees & hilles elonged from thy ſight

References

elong in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

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