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r discovery; prior obligation; -- used elliptically in cases like the following: he lived alone [in the time] prior to his marriage.

reflection from the internal cemented surface, and the extraordinary, or polarized, image alone is transmitted.

One who maintains that certainty is impossible, and that probability alone is to govern our faith and actions.

the Quadrumana were considered an order distinct from the Bimana, which last included man alone.

venty men, and fifty thousand of the rascal. Wyclif (1 Kings [1 Samuel] vi. 19). Poor men alone No, no; the noblest deer hath them [horns] as huge as the rascal. Shak.

dominion of a king; a kingdom. The absolute master of realms on which the sun perpetually alone. Motley.

correct; as, to reform a profligate man; to reform corrupt manners or morals. The example alone of a vicious prince will corrupt an age; but that of a good one will not reform it. Swift.

singular phenomenon was first discovered by Sir W. R. Hamilton by mathematical reasoning alone, unaided by experiment. -- Differential refraction (Astron.), the change of the apparent place of one object relative to a second object near it, due to refraction; also, the correction required to be made to the observed r…

interference; to hold aloof; to forbear; to abstain. Refrain from these men, and let them alone. Acts v. 38. They refrained therefrom [eating flesh] some time after. Sir T. Browne.

ill revenge our cause. Dryden. Come, Antony, and young Octavius, come, Revenge yourselves alone on Cassius. Shak.

. Hare. Safe from the bar, the pulpit, and the throne, Yet touched and shamed by ridicule alone. Pope.

irtues. Hooker. Only for the righteousness of Christ imputed to us, and received by faith alone. Westminster Catechism.

An elephant that has separated from a herd and roams about alone, in which state it is very savage.

ss to our sacred [royal] blood Should nothing privilege him. Shak. Poet and saint to thee alone were given, The two most sacred names of earth and heaven. Cowley.

be a special application of the above-mentioned provision, in accordance with which males alone can inherit the throne. This law has obtained in France, and at times in other countries of Europe, as Spain.

etermined in different plays; as, an act of four scenes. My dismal scene I needs must act alone. Shak.

rd as worthy of scorn or contempt; to disdain. "He thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai alone." Esther iii. 6. -- To laugh to scorn, to deride; to make a mock of; to redicule as contemptible.

Any species of ear-shaped shells of the genus Haliotis. See Abalone.

India ink, under India. Sepia drawing or picture, a drawing in monochrome, made in sepia alone, or in sepia with other brown pigments.

etc. But Martha . . . said, Lord, dost thou not care that my sister hath left me to serve alone Luke x. 40.