Definitions for: Livelong


[n] perennial northern temperate plant with toothed leaves and heads of small purplish-white flowers
[adj] (of time) constituting the full extent or duration; "all the livelong day"



Webster (1913) Definition: 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.

Synonyms: live-forever, orpin, orpine, Sedum telephium, whole

See Also: genus Sedum, sedum

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