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  Lone \Lone\, n.
     A lane. See Loanin. [Prov. Eng.]
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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.
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              When I have on those pathless wilds a appeared,
              And the lone wanderer with my presence cheered.
                                                    --Shenstone.
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     2. Single; unmarried, or in widowhood. [Archaic]
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              Queen Elizabeth being a lone woman.   --Collection
                                                    of Records
                                                    (1642).
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              A hundred mark is a long one for a poor lone woman
              to bear.                              --Shak.
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     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.
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              By a lone well a lonelier column rears. --Byron.
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     4. Unfrequented by human beings; solitary.
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              Thus vanish scepters, coronets, and balls,
              And leave you on lone woods, or empty walls. --Pope.
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