alona

[Derivation uncertain.) A genus of Entomostraca belonging to the family Lynceide. Three species, A. reticulata, A. quadrangular is, and A. ovata, are British. a-lō'ne, * al-loon' ( Eng . ), a-lā'ne (Scotch), a. & adv. [Eng. all ; one. In Sw. allen a ; Dan. alene ; Dut. alleen; Ger. allein .] A. As adjective: 1. Not in the company of others; by one's self, in solitude. (Used of one single person when temporarily or permanently apart from all others.) "I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house-top." -top." Ps. cii. 7. Sometimes the word all is prefixed to alone to render the idea of solitude more emphatic. "Alone, alone, all, all alone, Alone on the wide, wild sea." Cole ridge: Ancient Mariner. It may be used of two or more persons separated from all other company. and they two were alone in the field."1 Kings xi. 29. 2. Po e ed with the feeling of solitude. "Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt In solitude, when we are least alone ." Byron: Childe Harold, III. xc. 3. Not to be matched; peerle . "To her, whose worth makes other worthies nothing: She is alone." Shakesp.: Two Gent., ii. 4. To let alone signifies = to leave undisturbed, to allow to remain quiet. It is used sometimes to di uade one from officiously aiding a man quite competent to manage his own affairs; at others, to caution a person against compromising himself by speech or action, when it would be wiser to abstain from either. (Followed by an objective case of a person or thing.) "Is not this the word that we did tell thee in Egypt, saying, Let us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians?"- Exod . xiv. 12. † 4. Own, peculiar. "God, by whose alone power and conservation we all live, move, and have our being."- Bentley. B. As adverb: Merely, simply, only. "To God alloon in herte thus sang sche." Chaucer: C. Т., 12,063. "With wise reluctance, you would I extol, Not for gro good alone which ye produce." Words worth: Excursion, bk. v. Blair objected to this adverbial use of the word. He thus discriminates between only and alone: " Only imports that there is no other of the same kind; alone imports 167 being accompanied by no other. An only child is one which has neither brother nor sister; a child alone is one which is left by itself. There is a difference, therefore, in precise language betwixt these two phrases, Virtue only makes us happy,' and Virtue alone makes us happy. Virtue only makes us happy, imports that nothing else can do it; virtue alone makes us happy, imports that virtue, by itself, or unaccompanied with other advantages, is sufficient to do it." (Blair: Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles-Lettres, 1817, vol. 1, p. 230.) *a-lō'ne-ly, all ō'ne-lý, a & adv. [Eng. alone; -ly.] 1. As adjective: One only. "By the same grace of God, by alonely God." Mountagu: Appeal to Casur, p. 202 2. As adverb: Only, merely, singly. "The sorowe, daughter, which I make, Is not all onely for your sake." Gower: Conf. Am., b. 1. a-lō'ne-ne , s. [Eng. alone; -ne .] The state of existing alone. (Applied to God.) "God being alone himself, and beside himself nothing, the first thing he did or po ibly and conceivably could do, was to determine to communicate himself, and did so accordingly, primo primum , communicate himself out ut of his Alonene e everlasting unto somewhat else."-Mountagu's App . to Cæsar , p. 61. a-long, adv. & prep. [A.S. and lang = on length, by the side of.) (LONG.] IMG:content-0409.png:[blocks in formation] 3. Onward, in motion forward, in progre ive motion. "Come then, my friend, my genius, come along, Thou master of the poet and the song!" Pope: E ay on Man, iv. 374. All along: The whole length, full length; all throughout, in space or in time. "They were all along a cro , untoward sort of people. -South. * Along by: [ Along with]. (Shakesp.: Julius Cæsar , ii. 1.) Along with: In company with, in union with, in conjunction with. "I your commi ion will forthwith dispatch; And he to England shall along with you. Shakesp.: Hamlet, iii. 3. Along shore ( Naut . ): Along the shore, as of a ship moored lengthwise along the shore. Along shoreman : [LONG SHOREMAN.] Lying along: Pre ed down on one side, as by the weight of soil. B. As preposition : (1) In consequence of, owing to. ( Chaucer.) (2) By the side of. " Along the lawn where scattered hamlets rose. Goldsmith: Deserted Village. [Old form of * a-long'e, * al-lăng, vt. LONG, v.] To cause to long for. "And he was sore a longed after a good meel." Chuucer: C. T., 630. a-long-side, adv. [Eng. along; side.] Naut.: By the side of. a-longst', adv . [ALONG.] The same as ALONG. "The Turks did keep strait watch and ward in all their ports alongst the sea coast." - Knolles: Hist. of Turks .