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Even; just. (Often a mere intensive adjunct.) [Obs. or Poet.] All as his straying flock he fed. Spenser. A damsel lay deploring All on a rock reclined. Gay. All to, or All-to. In such phrases as "all to rent," "all to break," "all-to frozen," etc., which are of frequent occurrence in our old authors, the all and the to…

To salute; to greet. [Poet.] Whiles I stood rapt in the wonder of it, came missives from the king, who all-hailed me "Thane of Cawdor." Shak.

Pertaining to, or characterized by, alliteration; as, alliterative poetry. -- Al*lit"er*a*tive*ly, adv. -- Al*lit"er*a*tive*ness, n.

A bark canoe used by the Africans.

A bitter purgative principle in aloes.

Always. [Archaic or Poetic] I would not live alway. Job vii. 16.

An imaginary flower supposed never to fade. [Poetic]

Unfading, as the poetic amaranth; undying. They only amaranthine flower on earth Is virtue. Cowper.

Amatory. [Obs.] "Amatorious poem." Milton.

To bewilder; to stupefy; to bring into a maze. [Obs.] A labyrinth to amaze his foes. Shak.

rd shocks. The skipping king, he ambled up and down. Shak. Sir, your wit ambles well; it goes easily. Shak.

See Amianthus. [Poetic]

Oölite or roestone; -- written also hammite. [Obs.]

Any stock of missiles, literal or figurative. Ammunition bread, shoes, etc., such as are contracted for by government, and supplied to the soldiers. [Eng.]

e name of his mistress in the dust, or upon the damp earth, with letters fixed upon his shoe. Southey.

Elevated, -- as a toe, when raised so high that the tip does not touch the ground.

If; -- a word used by old English authors. Shak. Nay, an thou dalliest, then I am thy foe. B. Jonson. An if, and if; if.

By reflection; as, echoes are sound produced anacamptically. Hutton.

sentence; an instance of a change of construction in a sentence so that the latter part does not syntactically correspond with the first part.

Pertaining to, after the manner of, or in the meter of, the Greek poet Anacreon; amatory and convivial. De Quincey.