adv. 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.
1597. Shaks., Rom. & Jul., I. iii. 37. [Qo 1597 has] For then she could stand high lone [1st Fol. 1623 alone].
1604. Middleton, Blurt, II. ii. Wks. I. 262. When I could not stand a-high-lone without I held by a thing.
1664. Cotton, Scarron. (1692), 16 (D.). But e’er this colt … Was foal’d, and first ’gan stand an-high-lone.
