A*lone" (?), a. [All + one. OE. al one all allone, AS. ān one, alone. See All, One, Lone.]

"1. Quite by ones self; apart from, or exclusive of, others; single; solitary; -- applied to a person or thing."

Alone on a wide, wide sea. Coleridge.

It is not good that the man should be alone. Gen. ii. 18.

2. Of or by itself; by themselves; without any thing more or any one else; without a sharer; only.

Man shall not live by bread alone. Luke iv. 4.

The citizens alone should be at the expense. Franklin.

3. Sole; only; exclusive. [R.]

God, by whose alone power and conversation we all live, and move, and have our being. Bentley.

4. Hence; Unique; rare; matchless.Shak.

☞ The adjective alone commonly follows its noun.

To let or leavealone, to abstain from interfering with or molesting; to suffer to remain in its present state.

A*lone" , adv. Solely; simply; exclusively.

-- Webster's unabridged 1913