adv. and a. [See -WISE.] A. adv. = LENGTHWAYS.

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c. 1580.  Jefferie, Bugbears, III. iii. in Archiv Stud. neu. Spr. (1897), 90. Slend thys square sticke length-wyse in-to two.

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1774.  Goldsm., Nat. Hist., I. 362. Beginning about two degrees north of the line and so downward lengthwise for about a thousand miles.

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1842.  Act 5 & 6 Vict., c. 79 § 13. Allowing for every passenger … a space … of sixteen inches, measuring in a straight line lengthwise on the front of each seat.

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1894.  Hall Caine, Manxman, IV. viii. 228. The child slept, and Grannie put it on the pillow turned lengthwise at Kate’s side.

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  B.  adj. Following the direction of the length; longitudinal.

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1871.  Tylor, Prim. Cult., I. 112. Lengthwise splits mean going on well.

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1878.  W. K. Clifford, Elem. Dynamic. Kinem., 132. This component of velocity of any point on the [moving] line may be called the lengthwise velocity of the line.

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1891.  C. T. C. James, Rom. Rigmarole, 133. That wretched driver … was reposing in a sort of doubled-up, lengthwise position.

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