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eld. Proper words in proper places make the true definition of style. Swift. It is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work. I. Disraeli.

To exalt; to heighten; to improve; to purify. The sun . . . Which not alone the southern wit sublimes, But ripens spirits in cold, northern climes. Pope.

of events, offices, etc.; especially (Eccl.), one who insists that apostolic succession alone is valid.

Lonely; solitary; desolate. [Obs.] Wyclif (Job iii. 14).

few words sums up the moral of this fable. L'Estrange. He sums their virtues in himself alone. Dryden.

likeness of; to copy; to delineate; to picture; as, to take picture of a person. Beauty alone could beauty take so right. Dryden.

A red cap worn by Turks and other Eastern nations, sometimes alone and sometimes swathed with linen or other stuff to make a turban. See Fez.

enoting that the notes in the bass over or under which it is written should be performed alone, or with no other chords than unisons and octaves.

iction; pain. [Archaic] Chaucer. Spenser. With public toil and private teen Thou sank'st alone. M. Arnold.

rights by a precarious tenure. All that seems thine own, Held by the tenure of his will alone. Cowper. Tenure by fee alms. (Law) See Frankalmoigne.

Fickleness of conduct; inconstancy; change. The colonel, after all his tergiversations, lost his life in the king's service. Clarendon.

n. -- To think scorn. (a) To disdain. [Obs.] "He thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai alone." Esther iii. 6. (b) To feel indignation. [Obs.]

is composed of four elements, earth, air, fire, and water, and that vegetable medicines alone should be used; -- from the founder, Dr. Samuel Thomson, of Massachusetts.

So as to go the whole length of any business; fully; completely. [Obs.] Preservance alone can carry us thoroughstitch. L'Estrange.

e, or intention. Thus Bethel spoke, who always speaks his thought. Pope. Why do you keep alone, . . . Using those thoughts which should indeed have died With them they think on Shak. Thoughts come crowding in so fast upon me, that my only difficulty is to choose or to reject. Dryden. All their thoughts are against me f…

One who tilts, or jousts; hence, one who fights. Let me alone to match your tilter. Glanville.

tning, and torrents of rain, and commonly of short duration and small breadth; a small cyclone.

To relate to; to concern; to affect. The quarrel toucheth none but us alone. Shak.

A mass of building standing alone and insulated, usually higher than its diameter, but when of great size not always of that proportion.

ner Adam, perhaps, . . . from the transgressive infirmities of himself, might have erred alone. Sir T. Browne.