Part 341

<blockquote><b>Alone</b> on a wide, wide sea. <i>Coleridge.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>It is not good that the man should be <b>alone</b>. <i>Gen. ii. 18.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Of or by itself; by themselves; without any thing more or any one else; without a sharer; only.</def>

<blockquote>Man shall not live by bread <b>alone</b>. <i>Luke iv. 4.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>The citizens <b>alone</b> should be at the expense. <i>Franklin.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Sole; only; exclusive.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<blockquote>God, by whose <b>alone</b> power and conversation we all live, and move, and have our being. <i>Bentley.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>Hence; Unique; rare; matchless.</def>

<i>Shak.</i>

<note>&hand; The adjective <i>alone</i> commonly follows its noun.</note>

<cs><mcol><col>To let</col> or <col>leave</col></mcol> <i>alone<i>, <cd>to abstain from interfering with or molesting; to suffer to remain in its present state.</cd></cs>

<h1>Alone</h1> <Xpage=42>

<hw>A*lone"</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>Solely; simply; exclusively.</def>

<h1>Alonely</h1> <Xpage=42>

<hw>A*lone"ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>Only; merely; singly.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>This said spirit was not given <b>alonely</b> unto him, but unto all his heirs and posterity. <i>Latimer.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Alonely</h1> <Xpage=42>

<hw>A*lone"ly</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Exclusive.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Fabyan.</i>

<h1>Aloneness</h1> <Xpage=42>

<hw>A*lone"ness</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A state of being alone, or without company; solitariness.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<i>Bp. Montagu.</i>

<h1>Along</h1> <Xpage=42>

<hw>A*long"</hw> <tt>(?; 115)</tt>, <tt>adv.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>along</ets>, <ets>anlong</ets>, AS. <ets>andlang</ets>, <ets>along</ets>; pref. <ets>and-</ets> (akin to OFris. <ets>ond-</ets>, OHG. <ets>ant-</ets>, Ger. <ets>ent-</ets>, Goth. <ets>and-</ets>, <ets>anda-</ets>, L. <ets>ante</ets>, Gr. <?/, Skr. <ets>anti</ets>, over against) + <ets>lang</ets> long. See <er>Long</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>By the length; in a line with the length; lengthwise.</def>

<blockquote>Some laid <b>along</b> . . . on spokes of wheels are hung. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>In a line, or with a progressive motion; onward; forward.</def>

<blockquote>We will go <b>along</b> by the king's highway. <i>Numb. xxi. 22.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>He struck with his o'ertaking wings, And chased us south <b>along</b>. <i>Coleridge.</i></blockquote>