N. length, longitude, span,
mileage, distance, # line, bar, rule,
stripe,
streak, spoke, radius,
lengthening,
prolongation, production,
protraction, tension,
tensure, extension, line,
nail, inch, hand, palm, foot,
cubit, yard,
ell,
fathom,
rood, pole,
furlong, mile, league, chain, link,
arpent,
handbreadth, jornada, kos,
vara, astronomical unit, au, light-year, parsec, nanometer, nm,
micron,
micrometer, millimicron,
millimeter, mm,
centimeter, cm, meter,
kilometer, km,
pedometer,
perambulator, scale
V. be long, stretch out,
sprawl, extend to, reach to, stretch to, make a long arm, "drag its slow length along." render long,
lengthen, extend,
elongate, stretch,
prolong, produce,
protract, let out, draw out, spin out|,
drawl,
enfilade, look along, view in perspective, distend (expand) 194
Adj. long,
longsome,
lengthy,
wiredrawn, outstretched,
lengthened,
sesquipedalian,
interminable, no end of, macrocolous, linear,
lineal, longitudinal, oblong, as long as my arm, as long as today and tomorrow, unshortened &c. (shorten )
Adv. lengthwise, at length, longitudinally,
endlong, along,
tandem, in a line, in perspective, from end to end, from stem to stern, from head to foot, from the crown of the head to the sole of the foot, from top to toe, fore and aft
N. ornament, floridness c, adj,
turgidity,
turgescence,
altiloquence,
declamation, teratology|, well-rounded periods,
elegance,
orotundity, inversion,
antithesis,
alliteration,
paronomasia, figurativeness,
flourish, flowers of speech, flowers of rhetoric, frills of style,
euphuism,
euphemism, big-sounding words, high-sounding words,
macrology, sesquipedalia verba,
alexandrine,
inflation, pretension,
rant,
bombast,
fustian, prose run mad, fine writing, sesquipedality, minerva press, phrasemonger,
euphuist, euphemist
V. ornament, overlay with ornament, overcharge, smell of the lamp
Adj. ornament,
beautified,
ornate,
florid, rich,
flowery,
euphuistic,
euphemistic,
sonorous,
high-sounding, big- sounding, inflated, swelling,
tumid,
turgid,
turgescent,
pedantic,
pompous,
stilted,
orotund, high flown, high flowing,
sententious,
rhetorical,
declamatory,
grandiose,
grandiloquent,
magniloquent,
altiloquent,
sesquipedal,
sesquipedalian,
johnsonian, mouthy,
bombastic,
fustian,
frothy,
flashy, flaming,
antithetical,
alliterative,
figurative, artificial
Adv. ore rutundo
