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Live·long a.
1. Whole; entire; long in passing; -- used of time, as day or night, in adverbial phrases, and usually with a sense of tediousness.
The obscure bird
Clamored the livelong night. --Shak.
How could she sit the livelong day,
Yet never ask us once to play? --Swift.
2. Lasting; durable. [Obs.]
Thou hast built thyself a livelong monument. --Milton.
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livelong
adj : (of time) constituting the full extent or duration; "all the
livelong day"
n : perennial northern temperate plant with toothed leaves and
heads of small purplish-white flowers [syn: orpine, orpin,
live-forever, Sedum telephium]