† lengh Obs.
Forms: 1 leng(o, lengu, 1–2 læng, 5 leyngh, 4–5, 7 lengh(e.
[OE. lęng(u, lęngo wk. fem. = OHG. langî (MHG. lenge, mod.G. länge), Goth. laggei:—OTeut. *laŋgîn-, n. of quality f. *laŋgo- long a.]
Length (of time or space); in OE. also height, stature. at the lengh: in the long run.
| c 888 K. ælfred Boeth. (Sedgefield) xviii. §3 Tele nu þa lengu [MS. B. lenge] þære hwile. c 900 tr. Bæda's Hist. iv. xiv. [xi.] (1890) 296 Heo..toætecton lengeo þære þryh tweᵹra fingra ᵹemet. a 1000 Salomon & Sat. (Kemble) 180 Hu lang wæs Adam on lenge ᵹesceapen? c 1200 Vices & Virtues (1888) 39 Ne wraððe mid ðe ne wuneð ones daiȝes længe. a 1300 Cursor M. 12393 A treen bedd, þat suld o lengh [Fairf. lenght, Gött. lenth] thre eln haf. 13.. E.E. Allit. P. A. 416 In lenghe of dayez þat euer schal wage. a 1340 Hampole Psalter xx. 2 Þou gaf til him lenghe of dayes. a 1400–50 Alexander 5086 Lamprays sloȝis, þat sex cubettis clere was of clene lenghe. c 1400 tr. Secreta Secret., Gov. Lordsh. 72 In þis tyme þe day and þe nyght ys of oon lengh. c 1450 Lyarde in Rel. Ant. II. 281 Elevyne myle on lenghe the parke es mett. 1483 Act 1 Rich. III, c. 8 Preamb., Clothes..drawen out in leyngh and brede. 1612 in 2nd Rep. Rec. Irel. 265 They knew that they must be emprisoned at the lengh, and therefore (said they) as good now as hereafter. a 1699 A. Halkett Autobiog. (1875) 67 The third was a man that had a horne on the left side of the hinder part of his head..and his wife told mee shee had cutt the lengh of her finger off..because the weight of itt was troublesome. |