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To smell out; to hunt out; to find out; to detect. I alone Smoked his true person, talked with him. Chapman. He was first smoked by the old Lord Lafeu. Shak. Upon that . . . I began to smoke that they were a parcel of mummers. Addison.

Singly; alone; only; without another; as, to rest a cause solely one argument; to rely solelyn one's own strength.

The state of being sole, or alone; singleness. [R.] Chesterfield.

The state of being sole, or alone; soleness. [R.] Sir E. Dering.

the present, whatsoever it be, and be not solicitous about the future. Jer. Taylor. The colonel had been intent upon other things, and not enough solicitous to finish the fortifications. Clarendon. -- So*lic"it*ous*ly, adv. -- So*lic"it*ous*ness, n.

s to morbid changes of the solid parts of the body. It rests on the view that the solids alone are endowed with vital properties, and can receive the impression of agents tending to produce disease.

One who maintains that faith alone, without works, is sufficient for justification; -- opposed to nullifidian. Hammond.

A single diamond in a setting; also, sometimes, a precious stone of any kind set alone. Diamond solitaires blazing on his breast and wrists. Mrs. R. H. Davis.

In a solitary manner; in solitude; alone. Mic. vii. 14.

g or being by one's self; having no companion present; being without associates; single; alone; lonely. Those rare and solitary, these in flocks. Milton. Hie home unto my chamber, Where thou shalt find me, sad and solitary. Shak.

state of being alone, or withdrawn from society; a lonely life; loneliness. Whosoever is delighted with solitude is either a wild beast or a god. Bacon. O Solitude! where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face Cowper.

Wandering alone. [R.] T. Grander.

Alone; -- chiefly used in stage directions, and the like.

To tie or hobble with a spancel. [Prov. Eng. & Local, U.S.] Malone.

ook of Common Prayer. Dim sadness did not spare That time celestial visages. Milton. Man alone can whom he conquers spare. Waller.

re is none comparable to the variety of instructive expressions by speech, wherewith man alone is endowed for the communication of his thoughts. Holder.

he ocean. Addison. I forbear myself from entering the lists in which he has long stalked alone and unchallenged. Mericale.

Of or pertaining to the generation of electricity by means of solid bodies alone; as, a stereoelectric current is one obtained by means of solids, without any liquid.

Something that stands alone or by itself.

eaves strewed the ground. The snow which does the top of Pindus strew. Spenser. Is thine alone the seed that strews the plain Pope.