all 
Doth all that haunts the waste and wild 
Mourn, knowing it will go along with me ? 
Tennyson, Passing of Arthur. 
2. The whole number; every individual or par- 
ticular, taken collectively ; especially, all men 
or all people : in a plural sense. 
That whelpes are bliiule nine dayes, and then begin to 
see, is the common opinion of all ; and some will be apt 
to descend to oathes upon it. Sir T. Broitnte, Vnlg. Err. 
And, poured round all, 
Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste. 
Bryant, Thanatopsis. 
All, in either of the preceding uses, is often followed by 
a limiting phrase with of. 
'Tis not the whole of life to live, 
Nor all of death to die. Montgomery, Hymn. 
For all of wonderful and wild 
Had rapture for the lonely child. 
Scott, L. of the L. M., vi. 21. 
Then I and you and all of us fell down. 
Shot., J. C., iii. 2. 
3. Everything : as, is that all f that is all, 
What though the field be lost? 
All is not lost. Milton, P. L., i. 105. 
Above all. See above. After all, after everything has 
been considered ; in spite of everything to the contrary; 
nevertheless. 
Upon my soul, the women are the best judges after all. 
Sheridan, The Critic, i. 1. 
All and singular, collectively and individually ; one and 
all ; all without exception : a common legal phrase. All 
and some. K ME. alle and some, prop, pi., equiv. to L. 
universi et singuli, but also used in sing, form al and sum 
as adv., altogether: see gome.] (a) All and sundry; one 
and all. [Obsolete or archaic.] 
We are betrayd and ynome [taken], 
Horse and harness, lords, all aiid gome. 
Rich. C. de L., 1. 2283. 
Stop your noses, readers, all and gome. 
Dryden, Abs. and Achit., it. 
(6t) Altogether ; wholly. 
The tale ys wrytyn al and sum 
In a boke of Vitas Patrum. 
Bob. of Brunne, Handlyng Synne, 1. 189. 
All but, everything but ; everything short of ; almost ; 
very nearly : as, she is all but nine years of age. 
Hold her a wealthy bride within thine arms, 
Or all but hold, and then cast her aside. 
Tennyson, Holy Grail. 
All In all (as noun, all-in-all), all things in all respect* ; 
all or everything together ; adverbially, altogether. 
That God may be all in all. 1 Cor. xv. 28. 
In London she buyes her head, her face, her fashion. O 
London, thou art her Paradise, her heaven, her all-in-all. 
Tuke, On Painting (1616), p. 60. (Halliwell.) 
Take him for all in all, 
I shall not look upon his like again. 
ShaJc., Hamlet, i. 2. 
Acres. Dress does make a difference, David. 
Dav. "Tis all in all, I think. 
Sheridan, The Rivals, iii. 4. 
Her good Philip was her all-in-all. 
Tennyson, Enoch Arden. 
And all, and everything ; and everything else : used in 
summing up after an enumeration of particulars. 
The first blast of wind laid it [the tree] flat upon the 
ground, nest, eagles, and all. L'Estrange. 
Woo'd and married an' a'. Burnt. 
And all that, and all the rest of it : used like the pre- 
ceding, but generally in a slighting or contemptuous way : 
as, he believes in slate-writing, materialization, and all 
that. 
Snuff, or the fan, supply each pause of chat, 
With singing, laughing, ogling, and all that. 
Pope, R. of the L, iii. 17. 
At all. [< ME. at alle,] (at) In every way; altogether; 
wholly. 
She is a shrewe at al. Chaucer, Prol. to Merchant's Tale. 
(b) In any degree ; in any degree whatever ; in the least 
degree ; for any reason ; on any consideration : as, I was 
surprised at his coming "' all. 
Thirdly, the starres have not onely varied their longi- 
tudes, whereby their ascents are altered ; but have also 
changed their declinations, whereby their rising at all, 
that is, their appearing, hath varied. 
Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err. 
(c) In any way ; to any extent ; of any kind or character ; 
in negative, interrogative, or conditional clauses (compare 
I., 4): as, he was not at all disturbed; did you hear any- 
thing at alii if you hear anything at all, let me know ; no 
offense at all. 
An if this be at all. Shak., Tempest, v. 1. 
Before alLbefore everything ; before everything else ; be- 
yond all. Beyond all, beyond everything ; beyond every- 
thing else ; above all. For all (a) For all purposes, oc- 
casions, or times: especially in the phrases once for all and 
fur good and all. [Colloq. ) 
Learn now, for all, 
... I care not for you. Shak., Cymbeline, ii. 3. 
(b) Notwithstanding ; in spite of (the thing or fact men- 
tioned) : followed by an object noun or pronoun or an ob- 
ject clause with that, which is often omitted : as, for all 
that, the fact remains the same ; you may do so for all 
(that) I care, or for all me. See for. 
Go, sirrah ; for all you are my man, go wait upon my 
cousin Shallow. Shak., M. W. of W., i. 1. 
As Noah's pigeon, which return'd no more, 
Did show, she footing found, for all the flood. 
Sir J. Davies, Immortal, of Soul, xxxii. 
A man's a man for a' that. Burns, For A' That. 
144 
In all. () In the whole number ; all included : as, there 
wfix- in all at least a hundred persons present. 
In this tyme had Steuen regned auht gere in alle. 
Rob. of Brunne, Langtoft's Chron. (ed. Hearne), p. 122. 
(b) In whole : as, in part orirt all. - Over allt, everywhere. 
Chaacfr. (Now only in its literal meaning.] Two (or 
twos) all, three all, etc., in certain games, means that 
all (or merely both) the players or sides have two, three, 
etc., points. When all comes to all, when everything 
is explained ; at bottom. With allt. See withal. 
Ill, n. [Preceded by an article or a pronoun, 
rarely with an intervening adjective.] 1. A 
whole ; an entirety ; a totality of things or qual- 
ities. The All is used for the universe. 
And will she yet abase her eyes on me, . . . 
On me, whose all not equals Edward's moiety? 
Shak., Rich. III., i. 2. 
2. One's whole interest, concern, or property: 
usually with a possessive pronoun : as, she has 
given her all. [Formerly and still dialectically 
with pi. alls.] 
Though a very industrious tradesman, I was twice burnt 
out, and lost my little all both times. 
Sheridan, The Critic, i. 2. 
Old Boreas we are glad of that was required to pack 
up "his alls" and be off. De Quincey, Herodotus, ii. 
[For all in composition, see the adverb, at end.] 
all (al), adr. [< ME. al, rarely alle,<AS. call, 
eal (=OS. al, etc.), prop. neut. ace. (cf. AS. 
ealles = OS. alleg=Goth. allis, adv., prop. gen. 
neut.) of eall, eal, all: see all, a. The adverbial 
uses of all overlap the adjectival uses : see es- 
pecially under all, a., I., at end.] 1. Wholly; 
entirely; completely; altogether; quite. In 
this use common with adverbs of degree, espe- 
cially too : as, he arrived all too late. 
And tell us what occasion of import 
Hath all so long detain'd you from your wife. 
Shak., T. of the 8., iii. 2. 
He held them sixpence all too dear. 
Shak., quoted in Othello, ii. 3. 
Alone, alone, "/', all alone, 
Alone on a wide, wide sea. 
Coleridge, Ancient Mariner. 
O, yet methought I saw the Holy Grail, 
All pall'd in crimson samite. 
Tennyson, Holy Grail. 
[From the frequent Middle English use of all in this sense 
before verbs with the prefix to- (see (o-2 to-break, to-cut, 
to-tear, etc.), that prefix, when no longer felt as such, came 
to be attached to the adverb, all to or a/to being regarded 
as an adverbial phrase or word, and sometimes improperly 
used, in later English, with verbs having originally no 
claim to the prefix. 
The sowdan and the cristen euerichone, 
Ben al to-hewe and stiked at the bord. 
Chaucer, Man of Law's Tale, 1. 332. 
And a certain woman cast a piece of a millstone upon 
Abimelech's head, and all to-broke [printed all to brake] 
his scull. Judges ix. 53. 
They . . . were alle to-eutte with the stones. 
Caxton, Golden Legend, p. 236. 
She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, 
That in the various bustle of resort, 
Were all to-rufled [sometimes printed altoniffled], and 
sometimes impair'd. Milton, Comus, 1. 380.] 
2. Even ; just : at first emphatic or intensive, 
(a) With prepositional phrases of place or time, in later 
use, particularly in ballad poetry, little more than merely 
expletive or pleonastic : as, all in the month of May ; all 
in the morning tide. 
When all aloud the wind doth blow. 
Shak., L L L, v. 2 (song). 
A damsel lay deploring, 
All on a rock reclined. 
Gay. 
One night my pathway swerving east, I saw 
The pelican on the casque of our Sir Bors 
All in the middle of the rising moon. 
Tennyson, Holy Grail. 
(6) With conjunctions if and though, in conditional and 
concessive clauses : // all, though all, or reversely, all if, 
all though, even if, even though. These forms are obso- 
lete, except the last, which is now written as one word, 
although (which see). 
I am nought wode, alle if I lewed be. 
Chaucer, Troilus, iii. 398. 
gif alle it be so that men seyn, that this crowne is of 
thornes. Mandemlle (ed. Halliwell), p. 13. 
Thof alle that he werred in wo <fe in strife, 
The foure & tuenty houres he spended in holy life. 
Rob. of Brunne, Langtoft's Chron. (ed. Hearne), p. 23. 
Alle thoughc it be clept a see, it is no see. 
Mandemlle (ed. Halliwell), p. 266. 
[When the verb in such clauses, according to a common 
subjunctive construction, was placed before the subject, 
the conjunction if or though might be omitted, leaving all 
as an apparent conjunction, in the sense of even if, al- 
though ; especially in the formula al be, as al be it, al be 
it that, al be that (now albe, albeit, which see). 
Al be her herte wel nigh to-broke 
No word of pride ne grame she spoke. 
Lay le Freine, 1. 347, in Weber's Metr. Rom., I. 
Al were it that my auncetres were rude 
Yit may the highe God . . . 
Graunte me grace to lyve vertuously. 
Chaucer, Wife of Bath's Tale, 1. 31. 
allace 
His sacrifice he dede . . . with alle circumstances 
Al telle I nat as now his observances. 
Chaucer, Knight's Tale, 1. 1406. 
But living art may not least part expresse, . . . 
All were it Zeuxisor Praxiteles, 
His dicdale hand would faile and greatly faynt. 
Spenser, . CJ., iii., Prol.] 
(c) With conjunction as : All as. (1) Just when ; when ; as. 
All ai his straying flocke he fecMc. 
Spenser, Shep. Cal., Prol. 
He their courtesy to requite, 
Gave them a chain of twelve marks weight. 
All ag he lighted down. Scott, Marmion, i. 11. 
(2) As if. 
The kene cold blowes through my beaten hyde, 
All as I were through the body gryde. 
Spenser, Shep. Cal., Feb. 
3f. Only; exclusively. 
I shall never marry like my sisters, 
To love my father all. Shak., Lear, i. 1. 
All along, (a) Throughout ; continuously ; uninterrupt- 
edly ; from the beginning onward : as, I knew that all 
along. 
Ishmael . . . went forth, . . . weeping all along as he 
went. Jer. xli. 8. 
(b) From end to end ; In bookbinding, (sewed) in such a 
manner that the thread passes from end to end of each 
section, (c) At full length. 
I found a woman of a matchless form 
Stretch'd all along upon tlie marble floor. 
Tuke, Five Hours, ii. 
And there in gloom cast himself all along. 
Tennyson, Balin and Balan. 
All along of. Seealomj?. All In the wind (naut.), too 
close to the wind : said of a vessel so brought up into the 
wind that the sails shake. All Of a sudden, suddenly ; 
quite unexpectedly. 
Matters have taken so clever a turn all of a sudden, that 
I could find it in my heart to be so good-humoured ! 
Sheridan, The Rivals, iv. 2. 
All one, the same thing in effect ; quite the same. 
Yet I have the wit to think my master is a kind of a 
knave : but that's all one, if he be but one knave. 
Shak., T. G. of V., iii. 1. 
All outt [ME. al oute, alout], entirely ; completely ; quite. 
Then come these wikkyde Jewes . . . and brake theyre 
thees, and slewe them alle ante. 
MS. Lincoln (A), i. 17, folio 184. (Halliwell.) 
Whanne he hadde don his wille al oute. 
Rom. of the Rose, 1. 2101. 
I'sed especially with drink (see carouse). 
I quaught, I drinke all out. Palsgrave. 
Allus[F.],allout; or a carouse fully drunk up. Cotgram. 
All over, (a) In every part ; everywhere ; over the whole 
body. Chaucer, (b) Thoroughly ; entirely : as, " Dombey 
and Son "is Dickens allomr. [Colloq.] (c) Indisposed ; gen- 
erally ill ; having an all-overish feeling. [Colloq.] (d) All 
past ; entirely ceased : as, that is all over. All over with, 
done with ; finished : as, it is all over with their friendship ; 
colloquially, the trouble is all over with. 
Ay, a final sentence, indeed ! 'tis att over with you, 
faith ! Sheridan, The Rivals, Iv. 3. 
All right, an idiomatic colloquial phrase, either adjectival 
or adverbial, expressive of satisfaction with, approval of, 
or assent to anything, and equivalent to quite correct or 
correctly, satisfactory or satisfactorily, in a satisfactory 
condition or manner, etc. : as, your conduct or your dress 
is all rirjht ; he has done it all right ; "Are you ready? All 
right ; go ahead. " All the [ the, adv. : see the?], to all that 
extent ; so much : as, all the better ; all the fitter ; all the 
sooner. See the?. All there, up to the mark; wide 
awake; in strict fashion; nrst-rate. [Slang.] All up 
with, at an end ; all over with : as, when the pistol was 
raised he knew that it was all up with him. [Colloq.] 
[All, in composition, sometimes forms a true compound, 
as in almighty, already, always, algates, but usually stands, 
with or sometimes without a hyphen, in loose combination, 
retaining a syntactic relation, either (1) as adjective, as in 
All-hallowg, All-saints, allspice; (2) as noun, either (a) in 
genitive plural, as in all-father, or (6) in accusative as direct 
object, as in all-giver, all-seer, all-heal, particularly with 
present participles having all as object (though originally 
in many cases all was adverbial), as in all-healing, all- 
seeing, all-pervading, etc.; or (3) as adverb, either (a) with 
a noun (in the transitional construction mentioned under 
all, a., I., at end), as in all-bone, all-mouth, all-rail, all- 
wool, or (b) with almost any adjective that admits of rhe- 
torical sweep, as in all-perfect, all-powerful, all-wife, all- 
glorious, all-important.] 
alia (al'la). [It., dat. of fern. def. art. to; = F. 
d la, < L. ad Mam, lit. to that: used for alia ma- 
niera (di), in the manner (of) : see d la.] In mu- 
sic, after the (manner of) ; in the (style of) : as, 
alia francese, in the French style or manner. 
alia breve (al'la bra've). [It. : see alia and 
breve.] In music, an expression understood to 
denote (a) a species of time in which every 
bar contains a breve, or four minims; or (ft) a 
rhythm of two or four beats to a bar, but taken 
at a rate of movement twice as fast as if the 
piece were simply marked with the sign of com- 
mon time. The sign for alia breve time is 0. 
allabuta (al-a-bu'ta), n. [Origin not ascer- 
tained.] The hard, b'lack seed of the Chenoyo- 
(tiii/n album, used in stamping shagreen (which 
see). Also spelled alabuta. 
alia cappella. See a cappella. 
allacet, inter j. An old spelling of alas. 
