N. {ant. 132} lateness,
tardiness, delay,
delation,
cunctation,
procrastination,
deferring, deferral,
postponement,
adjournment,
prorogation,
retardation, respite,
pause,
reprieve, stay of execution,
protraction,
prolongation, fabian policy, medecine expectante, chancery suit, federal case,
leeway, high time, moratorium, holdover
V. be late,
tarry, wait, stay,
bide, take time,
dawdle,
linger,
loiter, bide one's time, take one's time, gain time, hang fire, stand over, lie over, put off,
defer, delay, lay over,
suspend, table, shift off, stave off,
waive,
retard,
remand,
postpone,
adjourn,
procrastinate,
dally,
prolong,
protract, spin out, draw out, lengthen out, stretch out,
prorogue, keep back, tide over, push to the last, drive to the last, let the matter stand over, reserve,
temporize, consult one's pillow, sleep on it, lose an opportunity, be kept waiting, dance attendance, kick one's heels, cool one's heels, faire antichambre, wait impatiently,
await, sit up, sit up at night
Adj. late,
tardy, slow,
behindhand,
serotine,
belated, postliminious,
posthumous, backward,
unpunctual, untimely, delayed,
postponed,
dilatory, delayed, in abeyance
Adv. late,
lateward, backward, late in the day, at sunset, at the eleventh hour, at length, at last, ultimately, after time, behind time, after the deadline, too late, too late for, slowly, leisurely,
deliberately, at one's leisure,
ex post facto, sine die
Phr. nonum prematur in annum, "against the sunbeams serotine and lucent", ie meglio tardi che mai, deliberando saepe perit occasio
V. continue,
persist, go on, jog on, keep on, run on, hold on,
abide, keep, pursue, stick to its course, take its course, maintain its course, carry on, keep up,
sustain,
uphold, hold up, keep on foot, follow up,
perpetuate, maintain, preserve, harp upon, keep going, keep alive, keep the pot boiling, keep up the ball, keep up the good work, die in harness, die with one's boots on, hold on the even tenor of one's way, pursue the even tenor of one's way, let be, stare super antiquas vias, quieta non movere, let things take their course, stare decisis
Adj. continuing, uninterrupted,
unintermitting, unvarying, unshifting, unreversed, unstopped,
unrevoked, unvaried, sustained, undying, inconvertible
Int. keep it up, go to it, right away, right on, attaboy, phr, nolumus leges angliae mutari, vestigia nulla retrorsum, labitur et albetur
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
