Adjacent Words
let hair downlet in
let in on
let into
let it all hang out
let it be known
let it go
let know
let loose
let off
let off steam
let off the hook
let on
let one have it
let one's hair down
let out
let pass
let ride
let rip
let slide
let slip
let the cat out of the bag
let the side down
let up
let well enough alone
let's
Let-alone
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Webster's 1913 Dictionary
Alone A*lone", a. [All + one. OE. al one all allone, AS. [=a]n one, alone. See All, One, Lone.] 1. Quite by one's 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. Note: The adjective alone commonly follows its noun. To let or leave alone, to abstain from interfering with or molesting; to suffer to remain in its present state.
