ellinge

Adjective

1. Isolated, lonely, dreary, unsettling.
   • ELlinge: Solitary, lonely, melancholy, farre from neighbours: q. elongatus. Suß. a Gallico Eſloigner. Ellende in the Ancient Saxon ſignifies procul, farre off, farre from. - [1674, John Ray, “[South and East Countrey...
   • His barn stood in a very elenge lonesome place, a goodish bit from de house, and de Pharisees used to come dere a nights and thresh out some wheat and wuts for him, so dat de hep o' threshed corn was ginnerly bigger in...
   • […] but when the sea is so ellinge, and you can't see far into the muddy waves for the white drift of foam-then any one used to such a sight begins to think whose boat will come home, or who may be missing before...