All 4 Uses of
oblong
in
Moby Dick
- The Narwhale has a very picturesque, leopard-like look, being of a milk-white ground colour, dotted with round and oblong spots of black.†
Chpt 31-33 *
- Regarding the Sperm Whale's head as a solid oblong, you may, on an inclined plane, sideways divide it into two quoins,* whereof the lower is the bony structure, forming the cranium and jaws, and the upper an unctuous mass wholly free from bones; its broad forward end forming the expanded vertical apparent forehead of the whale.†
Chpt 76-78
- After being severed from the whale, the white-horse is first cut into portable oblongs ere going to the mincer.†
Chpt 94-96
- Ripplingly withdrawing from his prey, Moby Dick now lay at a little distance, vertically thrusting his oblong white head up and down in the billows; and at the same time slowly revolving his whole spindled body; so that when his vast wrinkled forehead rose—some twenty or more feet out of the water—the now rising swells, with all their confluent waves, dazzlingly broke against it; vindictively tossing their shivered spray still higher into the air.†
Chpt 133-135
Definition:
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(oblong) an elongated shape -- typically of a stretched circle that is longer than an oval, but occasionally used to describe a rectangle