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ervations; informal dialogue. The influence exercised by his [Johnson's] conversation was altogether without a parallel. Macaulay.

enor. Counter-tenor clef (Mus.), the C clef when placed on the third line; -- also called alto clef.

money); avaricious; -- in a bad sense. The covetous person lives as if the world were madealtogether for him, and not he for the world. South.

ower: (a) when he fails to raise his oar clear of the water; (b) when he misses the water altogether in making a stroke.

The water rat. Walton.

A riding whip with a loop instead of a lash. Neck and crop, altogether; roughly and at once. [Colloq.]

squill (Scilla nutans). [Obs.] A girl cropping culverkeys and cowslips to make garlands. Walton.

e bait gently on the surface of the water. To catch a club by dapping with a grasshoper. Walton.

lead, or impress with false opinions; as, a deceptive countenance or appearance. Language altogether deceptive, and hiding the deeper reality from our eyes. Trench. Deceptive cadence (Mus.), a cadence on the subdominant, or in some foreign key, postponing the final close.

A work of sculpture of the above character. See Alto-rilievo.

To dip. [Prov. Eng.] Walton.

To dib or dip frequently, as in angling. Walton.

my legs of an unequal size; To disproportion me in every part. Shak. A degree of strength altogether disproportioned to the extent of its territory. Prescott.

character may be easily taught in a few days. Boyle. The docibleness of dogs in general. Walton.

To dip. [Obs.] Walton.

The drake fly. The drake will mount steeple height into the air. Walton. Drake fly, a kind of fly, sometimes used in angling. The dark drake fly, good in August. Walton.

onstitute; to make up with elements. His very soul was elemented of nothing but sadness. Walton.

The science of improving stock, whether human or animal. F. Galton.

taken separately one by one, out of an indefinite bumber. Every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Ps. xxxix. 5. Every door and window was adorned with wreaths of flowers. Macaulay.

In every place; in all places; hence, in every part; throughly; altogether.