Lone (?), n.
A lane. See Loanin.
[Prov. Eng.]
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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.
" A
lone isle."
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.
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