Also 6–7 lib-, lyblong. [f. LIVE v. + LONG adv.] Used as the name of certain plants. Cf. live-for-ever (LIVE v.1 13) and LIFE-EVERLASTING.
1. Sedum Telephium, ORPINE.
1578. Lyte, Dodoens, I. xxxi. 43. Like the roote of Orpyn or Lyblong.
1579. Langham, Gard. Health (1633), 455. Orpin or Liuelong, hath the nature and vertue of Houseleek.
1597. Gerarde, Herbal, II. cxxxviii. 417. In English Orpyne; also Liblong, or Liuelong.
1640. Parkinson, Theatr. Bot., 726. In English Orpine, and of some Livelong, because a branch of the greene leaves hung up in any place will keepe the verdure a long time.
1760. J. Lee, Introd. Bot., App. 317. Live-long. Sedum.
1861. Miss Pratt, Flower. Pl., II. 325.
† 2. American Cudweed, Antennaria margaritacea.
1597. Gerarde, Herbal, II. cxcv. 517. Wherefore our English women haue called it [Gnaphalium] Liuelong, or Liue for euer, which name doth aptly answer his effects.
1656. Parkinson, Parad., 375. The Live-long was brought out of the West-Indies, and groweth plentifully in our Gardens.
