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ˈelenge, a. Obs. exc. dial.
Forms: 1–3 ǽlenge, 3 elinge, (4 eling, elyng(e, helynge, eleynge, 7–8, 9 dial. ellinge), 2–6, 9 dial. elenge. Also alange, q.v.
[OE. ǽlęnge, f. æ- prefix + *lęnge:—OTeut. *langjo- f. *lango- long a. The two etymological senses of ‘very long, tedious’ and ‘remote, lonely’, seem to blend in the later uses. Chaucer abnormally accents eˈlenge (riming with chaˈlenge.)]
†1. Very long, tedious. Obs.
c897ælfred Gregory's Past. v. 40 Þæt hie bioð on ælengum ðingum..ᵹeðyldiᵹe. c1430ABC Aristotle in Babees Bk. (1868) 11 E to elenge, ne to excellent, ne to eernesful.
2. Remote, lonely; dreary, miserable. Obs. exc. dial.
c1205Lay. 15190 Þe stude wes ælenge [1275 Elinge]: nu hatte hit Stanhenge [ 1275Stonhenge]. a1300Cursor M. 3075 An elenge lijf þare þai ledd. c1300St. Brandan 637 Eling ich ȝeode her alone. 1377Langl. P. Pl. B. x. 94 Elyng is þe halle..Þer þe lorde ne þe lady liketh nouȝte to sytte. c1386Chaucer Wife's T. 343 Povert is this, although it seme elenge [v.r. alange, alenge, alinge]. 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) VII. 341 Lanfrank leet neuere a man goo from hym helynge and sory. c1400Beryn 967 Why do yee thus? this is an elyng fare. a1420Hoccleve De Reg. Princ. 1008 His labour to hym is the elengere. 1481Reynard (1844) 65 We goo not into another foreste, where we sholde be strange, and elenge. 1674Ray S. & E. Country Wds. 65 Ellinge. 1858Murray's Hand-bk. Kent Introd. 32 The fairies..may still be..heard of in the more ‘elenge’ (lonely) places of the Downs. 1875Parish Sussex Gloss. s.v. Ellynge, 'Tis a terrible ellynge, lonesome old house.
¶3. Explained in Dicts. as ‘strange, foreign’.
1678–96in Phillips. 1721in Bailey; and in mod. Dicts. |