资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

   2. Drawn out or extended in time; continued through a
      considerable tine, or to a great length; as, a long series
      of events; a long debate; a long drama; a long history; a
      long book.

   3. Slow in passing; causing weariness by length or duration;
      lingering; as, long hours of watching.

   4. Occurring or coming after an extended interval; distant in
      time; far away.

            The we may us reserve both fresh and strong Against
            the tournament, which is not long.    --Spenser.

   5. Extended to any specified measure; of a specified length;
      as, a span long; a yard long; a mile long, that is,
      extended to the measure of a mile, etc.

   6. Far-reaching; extensive. `` Long views.'' --Burke.

   7. (Phonetics) Prolonged, or relatively more prolonged, in
      utterance; -- said of vowels and syllables. See {Short},
      a., 13, and Guide to Pronunciation, [sect][sect] 22, 30.

   Note: Long is used as a prefix in a large number of compound
         adjectives which are mostly of obvious meaning; as,
         long-armed, long-beaked, long-haired, long-horned,
         long-necked, long-sleeved, long-tailed, long- worded,
         etc.

   {In the long run}, in the whole course of things taken
      together; in the ultimate result; eventually.

   {Long clam} (Zo["o]l.), the common clam ({Mya arenaria}) of
      the Northern United States and Canada; -- called also
      {soft-shell clam} and {long-neck clam}. See {Mya}.

   {Long cloth}, a kind of cotton cloth of superior quality.

   {Long clothes}, clothes worn by a young infant, extending
      below the feet.

   {Long division}. (Math.) See {Division}.

   {Long dozen}, one more than a dozen; thirteen.

   {Long home}, the grave.

   {Long measure}, {Long mater}. See under {Measure}, {Meter}.
      

   {Long Parliament} (Eng. Hist.), the Parliament which
      assembled Nov. 3, 1640, and was dissolved by Cromwell,
      April 20, 1653.

   {Long price}, the full retail price.

   {Long purple} (Bot.), a plant with purple flowers, supposed
      to be the {Orchis mascula}. --Dr. Prior.

   {Long suit} (Whist), a suit of which one holds originally
      more than three cards. --R. A. Proctor.

   {Long tom}.
      (a) A pivot gun of great length and range, on the dock of
          a vessel.
      (b) A long trough for washing auriferous earth. [Western
          U.S.]
      (c) (Zo["o]l.) The long-tailed titmouse.

   {Long wall} (Coal Mining), a working in which the whole seam
      is removed and the roof allowed to fall in, as the work
      progresses, except where passages are needed.

   {Of long}, a long time. [Obs.] --Fairfax.

   {To be}, or {go}, {long of the market}, {To be on the long
   side of the market}, etc. (Stock Exchange), to hold stock for
      a rise in price, or to have a contract under which one can
      demand stock on or before a certain day at a stipulated
      price; -- opposed to {short} in such phrases as, to be
      short of stock, to sell short, etc. [Cant] See {Short}.

   {To have a long head}, to have a farseeing or sagacious mind.

Parliament \Par"lia*ment\, n. [OE. parlement, F. parlement, fr.
   parler to speak; cf. LL. parlamentum, parliamentum. See
   {Parley}.]
   1. A parleying; a discussion; a conference. [Obs.]

            But first they held their parliament. --Rom. of R.

   2. A formal conference on public affairs; a general council;
      esp., an assembly of representatives of a nation or people
      having authority to make laws.

            They made request that it might be lawful for them
            to summon a parliament of Gauls.      --Golding.

   3. The assembly of the three estates of the United Kingdom of
      Great Britain and Ireland, viz., the lords spiritual,
      lords temporal, and the representatives of the commons,
      sitting in the House of Lords and the House of Commons,
      constituting the legislature, when summoned by the royal
      authority to consult on the affairs of the nation, and to
      enact and repeal laws.

   Note: Thought the sovereign is a constituting branch of
         Parliament, the word is generally used to denote the
         three estates named above.

   4. In France, before the Revolution of 1789, one of the
      several principal judicial courts.

   {Parliament heel}, the inclination of a ship when made to
      careen by shifting her cargo or ballast.

   {Parliament hinge} (Arch.), a hinge with so great a
      projection from the wall or frame as to allow a door or
      shutter to swing back flat against the wall.

   {Long Parliament}, {Rump Parliament}. See under {Long}, and
      {Rump}.