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, amount, quality, or degree of; the whole; the whole number of; any whatever; every; as, all the wheat; all the land; all the year; all the strength; all happiness; all abundance; loss of all power; beyond all doubt; you will see us all (or all of us). Prove all things: hold fast that which is good. 1 Thess. v. 21.…

ich sportive impositions are practiced. The first of April, some do say, Is set apart for All Fools' Day. Poor Robin's Almanack (1760).

All four legs of a quadruped; or the two legs and two arms of a person. To be, go, or run, on all fours (Fig.), to be on the same footing; to correspond (with) exactly; to be alike in all the circumstances to be considered. "This example is on all fours with the other." "No simile can go on all fours." Macaulay.…

All health; -- a phrase of salutation or welcome.

The first day of November, called, also, Allhallows or Hallowmas; a feast day kept in honor of all the saints; also, the season of this festival.

The second day of November; a feast day of the Roman Catholic church, on which supplications are made for the souls of the faithful dead.

See Alamort.

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

Controlled by an evil spirit or by evil passions; wild. [Colloq.]

With one breve, or four minims, to measure, and sung faster like four crotchets; in quick common time; -- indicated in the time signature by

The name of the Supreme Being, in use among the Arabs and the Mohammedans generally.

A silicate containing a large amount of cerium. It is usually black in color, opaque, and is related to epidote in form and composition.

Pertaining to, or contained in, the allantois. Allantoic acid. (Chem.) See Allantoin.

Of or pertaining to the allantois.

The division of Vertebrata in which the embryo develops an allantois. It includes reptiles, birds, and mammals.

A crystalline, transparent, colorless substance found in the allantoic liquid of the fetal calf; -- formerly called allantoic acid and amniotic acid.

A membranous appendage of the embryos of mammals, birds, and reptiles, -- in mammals serving to connect the fetus with the parent; the urinary vesicle.

To bark as a dog. [Obs.] Stubbes.

To make quiet or put at rest; to pacify or appease; to quell; to calm; as, to allay popular excitement; to allay the tumult of the passions.

One who, or that which, allays.