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v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Belonged p. pr. & vb. n. Belonging. ] [ OE. belongen (akin to D. belangen to concern, G. belangen to attain to, to concern); pref. be- + longen to desire. See Long, v. i. ] [ Usually construed with to. ] 1. To be the property of; as, Jamaica belongs to Great Britain. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To be a part of, or connected with; to be appendant or related; to owe allegiance or service. [ 1913 Webster ]

A desert place belonging to . . . Bethsaids. Luke ix. 10. [ 1913 Webster ]

The mighty men which belonged to David. 1 Kings i. 8. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To be the concern or proper business or function of; to appertain to. “Do not interpretations belong to God ?” Gen. xl. 8. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To be suitable for; to be due to. [ 1913 Webster ]

Strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age. Heb. v. 14. [ 1913 Webster ]

No blame belongs to thee. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To be native to, or an inhabitant of; esp. to have a legal residence, settlement, or inhabitancy, whether by birth or operation of law, so as to be entitled to maintenance by the parish or town. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bastards also are settled in the parishes to which the mothers belong. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To be deserved by. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

More evils belong us than happen to us. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Commonly in the pl. ] 1. That which belongs to one; that which pertains to one; hence, goods or effects. “Thyself and thy belongings.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which is connected with a principal or greater thing; an appendage; an appurtenance. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Family; relations; household. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Few persons of her ladyship's belongings stopped, before they did her bidding, to ask her reasons. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In the direction of the edge. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Three hundred thousand pieces have you stuck
Edgelong into the ground. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ See Eloign, Elongate. ] 1. To lengthen out; to prolong. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To put away; to separate; to keep off. [ Obs. ] Wyatt. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Elongated p. pr. & vb. n. Elongating. ] [ LL. elongatus, p. p. of elongare to remove, to prolong; e + L. longus long. See Long, a., and cf. Eloign. ] 1. To lengthen; to extend; to stretch; as, to elongate a line. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To remove further off. [ Obs. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To depart to, or be at, a distance; esp., to recede apparently from the sun, as a planet in its orbit. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ LL. elongatus. ] Drawn out at length; elongated; as, an elongate leaf. “An elongate form.” Earle. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. having a length noticeably longer than the width.
Syn. -- elongate. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

2. rendered longer.
Syn. -- lengthened. [ PJC ]

n. [ LL. elongatio: cf. F. élongation. ] 1. The act of lengthening, or the state of being lengthened; protraction; extension. “Elongation of the fibers.” Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which lengthens out; continuation. [ 1913 Webster ]

May not the mountains of Westmoreland and Cumberland be considered as elongations of these two chains? Pinkerton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Removal to a distance; withdrawal; a being at a distance; distance. [ 1913 Webster ]

The distant points in the celestial expanse appear to the eye in so small a degree of elongation from one another, as bears no proportion to what is real. Glanvill. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Astron.) The angular distance of a planet from the sun; as, the elongation of Venus or Mercury. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Before the &unr_;apse of a long time; soon; -- usually separated, ere long. [ 1913 Webster ]

A man, . . . following the stag, erelong slew him. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

The world, erelong, a world of tears must weep. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Life + long. Cf. Livelong. ] Lasting or continuing through life. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

The obscure bird
Clamored the livelong night. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

How could she sit the livelong day,
Yet never ask us once to play? Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Lasting; durable. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Thou hast built thyself a livelong monument. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. [ See Sideling, adv. ] 1. Laterally; obliquely; in the direction of the side. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. On the side; as, to lay a thing sidelong. [ See Sideling, adv. ] Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Lateral; oblique; not being directly in front; as, a sidelong glance. [ 1913 Webster ]

The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]