"long ess" meaning in English

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "long esses",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "long ess (plural long esses)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "long s"
        }
      ],
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          "source": "w"
        }
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1895, M[oses] J[asper] Martin, Inductive German Method (The Werner Modern Language Series), book first, Chicago, Ill., New York, N.Y.: Werner School Book Company, page 6",
          "text": "Long ess, ſ, is used at the beginning or in the middle of a word or syllable;",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2001, Journal of the Printing Historical Society, page 11",
          "text": "There are also a few examples of books printed at around this time in which the long and short esses appear willy-nilly, due, no doubt, to an attempt to abandon the older usage, which partly failed due to carelessness, habit or lack of understanding on the part of the compositors involved.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, “A Note to the Reader”, in Passing the Torch of Liberty to a New Generation, Powder Springs, Ga.: American Vision Press, page xvii",
          "text": "“Short esses” (s) appear at the end of words, and “long esses” are never used for an upper case S.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of long s"
      ],
      "id": "en-long_ess-en-noun-2fSHu8PK",
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        [
          "long s",
          "long s#English"
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      ],
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    }
  ],
  "word": "long ess"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "long esses",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "long ess (plural long esses)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "long s"
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        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1895, M[oses] J[asper] Martin, Inductive German Method (The Werner Modern Language Series), book first, Chicago, Ill., New York, N.Y.: Werner School Book Company, page 6",
          "text": "Long ess, ſ, is used at the beginning or in the middle of a word or syllable;",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2001, Journal of the Printing Historical Society, page 11",
          "text": "There are also a few examples of books printed at around this time in which the long and short esses appear willy-nilly, due, no doubt, to an attempt to abandon the older usage, which partly failed due to carelessness, habit or lack of understanding on the part of the compositors involved.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, “A Note to the Reader”, in Passing the Torch of Liberty to a New Generation, Powder Springs, Ga.: American Vision Press, page xvii",
          "text": "“Short esses” (s) appear at the end of words, and “long esses” are never used for an upper case S.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of long s"
      ],
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        [
          "long s",
          "long s#English"
        ]
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  "word": "long ess"
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