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CIDE DICTIONARY
ROGET THESAURUS
longshoreman | longshot | longsighted | longsightedness | longsome | longspun | longspur | longstanding | longtail | longtail weasel | longtime

longspun

CIDE DICTIONARY

longspuna. 
     Spun out, or extended, to great length; hence, long-winded; tedious.  [1913 Webster]
    "The longspun allegories fulsome grow,
    While the dull moral lies too plain below.
    "  [1913 Webster]

ROGET THESAURUS

longspun

Diffuseness

N diffuseness, amplification, dilating, verbosity, verbiage, cloud of words, copia verborum, flow of words, looseness, Polylogy, tautology, battology, perissology, pleonasm, exuberance, redundancy, thrice-told tale, prolixity, circumlocution, ambages, periphrase, periphrasis, roundabout phrases, episode, expletive, pennya-lining, richness, diffuse, profuse, wordy, verbose, largiloquent, copious, exuberant, pleonastic, lengthy, longsome, long-winded, longspun, long drawn out, spun out, protracted, prolix, prosing, maundering, circumlocutory, periphrastic, ambagious, roundabout, digressive, discursive, excursive, loose, rambling episodic, flatulent, frothy, diffusely, at large, in extenso, about it and about it.


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