lee-lone dial.
Also Sc. lee-lane.
[An emphasized form of lone a. The first element is of doubtful origin; Ramsay has liefu' lane in the same sense: see leeful.]
Chiefly in phrase by (one's) lee-lone: quite alone, by (one)self.
| 1878 Stevenson Merry Men ii, Praying..that God would ‘remember..fower puir, feckless, fiddling, sinful creatures here by their lee-lane beside the great and dowie waters’. 1893 ― Catriona ii. xxii. 265 What would become of you here, and you your lee-lone in a strange place? 1920 N. Munro in Northern Numbers 35, I heard a maiden sing, All in the lee-lone Sabbath morn. 1928 D. Byrne Destiny Bay i. §19. 128 Will you..leave your cousin Jenico and Miss Ann-Dolly by their lee lone? 1966 T. H. Raddall Hangman's Beach iv. xxvi. 399, I thought 'twas only love letters a gel went off tae read by her lee-lone. |