Dictionary entry

Lone (2)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.

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.