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. 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.

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