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fact; in deed; in reality; in truth. Beauty is excelled by manly grace And wisdom, which alone is truly fair. Milton.

An American perennial herb (Chelone glabra) having white flowers shaped like the head of a turtle. Called also snakehead, shell flower, and balmony.

e of the intellectual faculties; to be an intelligent being. Imparadised in you, in whom alone I understand, and grow, and see. Donne.

; not countenanced or supported. Goldsmith. If Richard indeed does come back, it must be alone, unfollowed, unfriended. Sir W. Scott.

es here at Rome . . . call them unions, as a man would say "singular," and by themselves alone. Holland. In the cup an union shall he throw, Richer than that which four successive kings In Denmark's crown have worn. Shak.

Sounding alone. [Obs.] [sounds] intermixed with voice, Choral or unison. Milton.

Lonely; dreary; unkard. [Prov. Eng.] Weston is sadly unked without you. Cowper.

Not paired; not suited or matched. And minds unpaired had better think alone. Crabbe.

Honor shall uphold the humble in spirit. Prov. xxix 3. Faulconbridge, In spite of spite, alone upholds the day. Shak.

lness; utility. God made two great lights, great for their use To man. Milton. 'T is use alone that sanctifies expense. Pope.

ar virtues into one, and would substitute in their place the greatest usefulness, as the alone principle to which every question respecting the morality of actions should be referred. Chalmers. But what is a utilitarian Simply one who prefers the useful to the useless; and who does not Sir W. Hamilton.…

oid; vacuum. A vacuity is interspersed among the particles of matter. Bentley. God . . . alone can answer all our longings and fill every vacuity of our soul. Rogers.

The acorn cup of two kinds of oak (Quercus macrolepis, and Q. vallonea) found in Eastern Europe. It contains abundance of tannin, and is much used by tanners and dyers.

Waste; desert; desolate; lonely. [Obs.] The empty, vast, and wandering air. Shak.

To lay claim to; to assert a right to; to claim. [R.] Is thine alone the seed that strews the plain The birds of heaven shall vindicate their grain. Pope.

sonant; to give intonation or resonance to. It is one thing to give an impulse to breath alone, another thing to vocalize that breath. Holder.

ially, to sail or pass by water. A mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of thought alone. Wordsworth.

ence, a hurdle made of such rods. And there he built with wattles from the marsh A little lonely church in days of yore. Tennyson.

in heaven. Milton. The wild winds howl. Addison. Search then the ruling passion, there, alone The wild are constant, and the cunning known. Pope.

Wizened; thin; weazen; withered. A little lonely, wizen, strangely clad boy. Dickens.