| 释义 |
† a-high-lone, advb. phr. Obs.
Prob. a mere emphasizing of alone, i.e. all-one, improperly divided as a-lone, whence emphatically a-high-lone, an-high-lone. Cf. high noon, high carnival, Shakespeare's high gravel blind: see high.
1597Shakes. Rom. & Jul. i. iii. 37 [Qo 1597 has] For then she could stand high lone [1st Fol. 1623 alone]. 1604Middleton Blurt ii. ii. Wks. I. 262 When I could not stand a-high-lone without I held by a thing. 1664Cotton Scarron. (1692) 16 (D.) But e'er this colt..Was foal'd, and first 'gan stand an-high-lone. |