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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

[L.

oblongus

;

(see

) +

longus

long: cf. F.

oblong

Having greater length than breadth, esp. when rectangular.

Noun.

A rectangular figure longer than it is broad; hence, any figure longer than it is broad.

The best figure of a garden I esteem an

oblong

upon a descent.

Sir W. Temple.

Adj.

[L. oblongus.] Longer than broad.

Noun.

A figure or solid which is longer than it is broad.