Meaning of LONE
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\Lone\, n.
A lane. See {Loanin}. [Prov. Eng.]
\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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