length sb. (1 rare outside S.; 5 common Eliz.)
1.
“of ,” long
R2 IV. i. 11
“Is not my arm of ,”
Troil. I. iii. 136
“To end a tale of
length.”
2.
prolixity,
lengthiness
R2 V. i. 94
“there is such in
grief,”
Ant. IV. xii. [xiv.] 46 “All
length is torture.”
3.
reach, range
Mac. IV. iii. 233
“Within my sword's ,”
Ham. I. ii. 204
“Within his truncheon's
,”
Per. I. i. 168
“within my pistol's
length.”
4.
(long) stretch or
extent
John I. i. 105
“large l-s of
seas,”
Sonn. xliv. 10
“To leap large l-s of
miles.”
5.
“draw out in ,” prolong,
protract Mer.V. III. ii.
23.
