Hypertext Webster Gateway: "livelong"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Livelong \Live"long`\, a. [For lifelong. Cf. {Lifelong}.]
1. Whole; entire; long in passing; -- used of time, as day or
night, in adverbial phrases, and usually with a sense of
tediousness.
The obscure bird Clamored the livelong night.
--Shak.
How could she sit the livelong day, Yet never ask us
once to play? --Swift.
2. Lasting; durable. [Obs.]
Thou hast built thyself a livelong monument.
--Milton.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
livelong
adj : (of time) constituting the full extent or duration; "all the
livelong day"
n : perennial northern temperate plant with toothed leaves and
heads of small purplish-white flowers [syn: {orpine}, {orpin},
{live-forever}, {Sedum telephium}]
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