a. Obs. exc. dial. Also Sc. lanefu’. [f. LONE a. + -FUL.] Lonely, forlorn.
1565. Stapleton, trans. Bede’s Hist. Ch. Eng., V. i. 153 b. That solytary and lonefull lyffe, which he [Aedilwalde] passed in Farne island.
1844. Thom, Rhymes, 42. The lanefu’ lawyer held his breath An’ word micht utter nane.
