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Entry 5 senses · 2 variants Webster, 1913

Lone

/lōn/ · IPA /loʊn/
01 n. A lane. See Loanin.
  1. 1.
    A lane. See Loanin.[Prov. Eng.] See: Loanin
02 a. Being without a companion; being by one's self; also, sad from lack of companionship; lonely; as, a lone traveler or watcher.
  1. 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. 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. 3.
    Being apart from other things of the kind; being by itself; also, apart from human dwellings and resort; as, a lone house.
    “By a lone well a lonelier column rears.” Byron.
  4. 4.
    Unfrequented by human beings; solitary.
    “Thus vanish scepters, coronets, and balls, And leave you on lone woods, or empty walls.” Pope.