elong
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Verb
[edit]elong (third-person singular simple present elongs, present participle elonging, simple past and past participle elonged)
- (transitive, obsolete) To lengthen out; to prolong.
- (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[1], page 53v:
- By Sees & hilles elonged from thy ſight
References
[edit]“elong”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.