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De - Pt| English Dictionary: 'Lone | by the DICT Development Group |
| 2 results for 'Lone | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Lone \Lone\, n. A lane. See {Loanin}. [Prov. Eng.] | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Lone \Lone\, a. [Abbrev. fr. alone.] 1. Being without a companion; being by one's self; also, sad from lack of companionship; lonely; as, a lone traveler or watcher. When I have on those pathless wilds a appeared, And the lone wanderer with my presence cheered. --Shenstone. 2. Single; unmarried, or in widowhood. [Archaic] Queen Elizabeth being a lone woman. --Collection of Records (1642). A hundred mark is a long one for a poor lone woman to bear. --Shak. 3. Being apart from other things of the kind; being by itself; also, apart from human dwellings and resort; as, a lone house. [bd] A lone isle.[b8] --Pope. By a lone well a lonelier column rears. --Byron. 4. Unfrequented by human beings; solitary. Thus vanish scepters, coronets, and balls, And leave you on lone woods, or empty walls. --Pope. | |
