Parturiunt montes, nascetur ridiculus mus: he spake
of a foxe, but when all came to all, it was but a ferne-
brake.
Withals' Dictionary, ed. 1634, p. 574.

All along, prostrate.

The bishop going into his study, which only could get
into but himself, found his own picture lying all along
on its face, which extremely perplexed him, he looking
upon it as ominous. Heylin's Life of Archbishop Laud.
All one, all the same thing.

O Clinia, you take your love otherwise then shee is :
for shee lives after the old use and custome, and her
mind towards you is all one that it was before, as farre
as by the thing itselfe we two could conjecture.
Terence in English, 1614.
But all's one, let him doe his worst, shee is confidently
arm'd with innocency; and the threats or danger of
the bad cannot affright her, but that shee will attempt
to recreate the good.
Taylor's Workes, 1630.
It is all one, sir, where you open the book, his rheto-
rical humour is so very much the same.
Eachard's Observations, 8vo, 1671, p. 133.

+To throw or push at all, to risk the whole. A term in gambling.

At dice they plaid for faieries; at each cast
A knight at least was lost: what doe you set?
This knight cries one (and names him), no, a lord
Or none; tis done, he throwes and sweepes the bord;
His hatte is full of lords up to the brimme;
The sea threw next at all, won all and him.

Decker's Whore of Babylon, 1607.
Think not to please your servants with half-pay:
Good gamesters never stick to through at all.

Cotgrave's Wits Interpreter, 1671, p. 164.
And so be all suspected: wondrous good.
Go bravely on then, Dampierre, push at all,
Honour attends th' attempt, tho thou shouldst fall.
Unnatural Brother, 1697.
At all, quoth Rufus, lay you what you dare,
I'll throw at all, and 'twere a peck of gold;
No life lies on't, then coyn I'll never spare;
Why Rufus, that's the cause of all that's sold?
For which frank gamesters it doth oft befall,
They throw at all, till thrown quite out of all.
Wills Recreations, 1654.

ALL AND SOME.

one; everything.

One and all; every

Thou who wilt not love do this, Learn of me what woman is;

Something made of thread and thrumme, A mere botch of all and some.

Herrick, p. 84.

In armour eke the soulders all and some,
With all the force that might so soon be had.
Mirr. for Mag., p. 91.
ALLEGANCE. See

ALLEGGE,
ALEGGE.
ALL TO. Entirely; very much. The to
seems to have an augmentative power,
so as to increase the force of the word
following. Thus all-to-torn means very
much torn. [Nares has apparently
mistaken the origin of this form: to
belongs to the following word, being a
particle answering to the German zu-.
To-broken, means broken to pieces;

It occurs even in the authorised version of the Bible:

And a certain woman cast a piece of a millstone upon
Abimelech's head, and all to brake his skull.

Judges ix, 53. Where it has sometimes been ignorantly printed "all to break." See Newcome on Versions, p. 303.

It is used also by Milton, in a very beautiful passage; and this, being the last known instance of it, has been much misunderstood.

Where, with her best nurse, Contemplation, She [Wisdom] plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That, in the various bustle of resort, Were all to ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. Comus, i, 376. This has been read, "all too ruffled," as if to be ruffled in some degree was allowable, which the author certainly did not mean. Warton says, that the corruption began with Tickell; but it is so quoted at the end of No. 98 of the Tatler, whether in the original editions or not, I cannot say. I find it so in the London edition of 1797. All-to-be is also met with, but rather in a ludicrous way, and was so retained for a long time in jocular language, after beginning to be obsolete.

I'll have you chronicled and chronicled and cut and chronicled, and all-to-be-prais'd, and sung in sonnets. B. & F., Philaster, act v. The editors of 1750 unnecessarily changed this to "sung in all-to-beprais'd sonnets." It was right before. We find it in one of Swift's letters to Pope:

This moment I am so happy as to have a letter from Lord Peterborow, for which I intreat you will present him with my humble respects and thanks, tho' he all-to-be-Gullivers me by very strong insinuations. Letter 21. I wonder my Lord of Canterbury is not once more all-to-be-traytor'd for dealing with the lyons, to settle the commission of array in the Tower.

Clevel, Char. of a diurn. Wr.

+ALL-BONES. A nickname for a thin bony fellow in How a Man may Chuse a Good Wife from a Bad, 1602. +ALL-CIRCUMFERENCE.

cumference of the universe.

The cir

Du Barlas.

Tooke great booties and riche prayes both of goodes and prisoners, and allected with the sweetnesse of such spoyle. Holinshed's Chronicles, 1577. ALLECTIVE. A bait; an allurement.

For what better alective coulde Satan devise, to allure and bring men pleasantly into damnable servitude. Northbrooke's Treatise against Dicing, 1577.

Wherein ar comprysyde many and dyvers solacyons and ryght pregnant allectyres of syngular pleasure, as more at large it doth apere in the pees folowynge. British Bibliographer, iv, 390.

+To ALLEGATE. To allege.

ner.

his fashion: in the time of Cæsar, curled of his manWhen Cyrus lived, every one praised the hooked nose, and when he died, they allowed the straight nosc. And so it fareth with love.

Lylie's Euphues and his England, 1623.
To compare.

1 Hen. IV, i, 2.

In the ignorance of Popish superstition, all-hallows was worshipped as a single saint; or at least this ignorance was imputed to them.

Frendes, here shall ye se evyn anone
Of all-hallorces the blessed jaw-bone,
Kisse it hardely with good devocion.

Four Ps, O. P., i, 74. And least (quoth he) you deeme it were presumption, If I should offer you my bare assumption,

I sweare all-hallows, I will make repayment,
Yea though I pawn mine armour and my rayment.
Sir John Harington's Epigrams, 1633.
ALLIANT, adj. Akin to.

Thys they toke so muche the souner, bycause, it is sumwhat allyaunte to them. More's Utopia, 1551. ts. A kinsman; a relation.

For

Wherefore Jesus, thoughe he were almyghtye, and
desyrous to save as many as myght be, yet could he
not there among his countreymen worke many my-
racles, for that he was letted so to dooe by the un-
belefe of his acquayntaunce and kynsfolkes.
where as being among alyauntes, he had easely cured
very many of all kyndes of diseases, caste out dyvels,
and healed leapers, here in his owne countrey, he
oneley healeth a fewe sicke folkes, and that with the
laying of his handes upon them.

Paraphrase of Erasmus, 1548. ALLIGARTA. The alligator, or crocodile. In Spanish lagarto.

It appears by the following passage, that the urine of this creature was supposed to render any herb poisonous on which it was shed.

And who can tell, if before the gathering and making up thereof, the alligarta hath not piss'd thereon? B. Jons., Bart. F., ii, 6. †ALL-NIGHT. A wick set in the middle of a large cake of wax. Johns. & Stev. Shak., vii, 146.

In which respects having spoken of a few, Ile skip over the rest to avoid tediousnesse; and to free my selfe from the imputation of partiality, Ile at last allude her to a water-man. Taylor's Workes, 1630.

Approbation.

A stirring dwarf we do allowance give Before a sleeping giant.

Tro. & Cr., ii, 3.

Spenser has very licentiously accented this word on the first syllable.

Through fowle intemperance

Frayle men are oft' captiv'd to covetise; But would they thinke with how small allowance Untroubled Nature doth herself suffise, Such superfluities they would despise. F. Q., II, vii, 15. ALMAIN-LEAP. A dancing leap.

And take his almain leap into a custard.

B. Jon., Dev. an Ass, i, 1.

Almain, or allemande, by the testi-
mony of Skinner and others, meant
a kind of solemn music. So in
Tancred and Gismunda, Introductio
in actum tertium, "Before this act
the haubois sounded a lofty almain.”
O. Pl., 230. The connection between
music and dancing is so intimate, that
there is no wonder that it should
signify a dance also. Allemands were
danced here a few years back.
Also, a German :

Your Dane, your German, and your swag-bellied Hollander, are nothing to your English-he drinks you with facility, your Dane dead drunk; he sweats not to overthrow your Almain; he gives your Hol lander, &c. Oth., ii, 3. Of Almains, and to them for their stout captain gave The valiant Martin Swart.

Drayt. Polyolb., S. 22, p. 1102. TALMAN, or ALEMAN. A German. Chonodomarius and Vestralpus, Aleman kings, after they had put to flight Barbatio, colonell of the Romane footmen, and chased part of the armie with a puissant army, sat them downe neere unto Argentoratum, and by their embassadours insult over Julianus.

Holland's Ammianus Marcellinus, 1609.
Tis good to be and have, a Greek, I think,
Once said; an Alman added, and to drink.
Owen's Epigrams.
A sort of light

+ALMAN-RIVET.

armour derived from Germany.

The 2 of July, the citizens of London had a muster
afore the queenes majestie at Greenewich in the parke,
of 1400 men, whereof 800 were pikemen all in fine
corselets, 400 harquebuts, in shirts of maile, with
morins, and 200 halberters in alman-rivets, which
were furnished and set foorth by the companies of the
Stowe's Chronicle.
citie of London.

ALMAINY, or ALMANY.
Allemagne, Fr.

Germany.

And walk with my petticoats tucked up, like
A long maid of Almainy.
O. Pl., viii, 438.

Now Fulko comes, that to his brother gave
His land in Italy, which was not small,
And dwelt in Almany.

Harr., Ariost., iii, 30.

Heywood's Spider and Flie, 1556. +ALMONDS were very extensively used in a variety of preparations for the table. Almond-milk, composed of almonds ground and mixed with milk or other liquid was a favorite beverage, as were also almond-butter and almond-custard. The antiquity of the practice of serving almonds and raisins together at dessert, seems to be shown from the name almonds-andraisins being given as that of an old English game, in Useful Transactions in Philosophy, 1709, p. 43. Almond-cakes were perhaps what we

now call a macaroon.

4. Give me then some crummes of bread, or of my powder of almond cakes, with beane flower, and the little sheeres also.

M. Heere they are. +ALMOSE, s.

Passenger of Benvenuto, 1612.

Alms.

Be yt then established and enactyd, that the governor of any such monastery, which at any tyme shall be voyde of religious persons, shall bestow the money, wherwyth he was befor chargyd, for the fynding and stypending of the sayd religeous persons in the almose and releff of the poor people of the same town, or yter, wheryn the sayd monasterye standyth, yf ther be sufficient nomber to be chery shed, or ells yn the townys nex adjoinyng therunto, by the discretion of the sayd governor and survoyor of the sayd lands, and provost of the sayd cort of Centenar. Old Monast. Rules. A nobleman sent a gent. of his, in great diligence, about some especiall affaires, and such was his dili gence that he kill'd his lords horse by the way. Being returned home, it pleas'd the nobleman to make him pay fifty crownes for the horse, saying that he was content to reward him so well as to forgive him the rest. The gentleman thought himselfe hardly dealt withall, and answered: Sir, this is neither reward nor almose. Copley's Wits, Fits, and Fancies, 1614.

ALMES-GATE, 8. The gate at which the alms of the house were distributed to the poor.

Tarlton called Burley-house gate, in the Strand

towards the Savoy, the lord treasurers almes-gute,

because it was seldom or never opened.

Tarlton's Jests.

+ALMUTE. A governing planet. Without a sign masculine? Dem. Sir, you mistake me: You are not yet initiate. The almutes

Of the ascendent is not elevated
Above the almutes of the filial house:
Venus is free, and Jove not yet combust.

Randolph's Jealous Lovers, 1646. +ALMS-PENNY seems to mean what we should call a lucky penny.

Father, here is an alms-penny for me, and if I speed in
that I go for, 1 will give thee as good a gown of grey
as ever thou diddest wear.
Peele's Old Wives Tale, 1595.

་

+ALOFT, adv. Upwards. To come aloft was used in the sense of to rise, to prosper.

Diogenes having seen that the kingdom of Macedon, which before was contemptible and low, began to come aloft, when he died, was asked how he would be buried, he answered, With my face downward; for within a while the world will be turned upside down, and then I shall lie right.

King James's Witty Apothegms.

I wyll, said Wyll, clyme hye alought;
Such folke, said Wytte, fall muclie onsought.
MS. Coll. Corp. Christ., 168.

ALONELY, adv. Merely; only.

I speak not this alonly for mine owne.

Mirr. for Mag., p. 367. Fairf. T., xvi, 47. lonely let me go with thee, unkind. Mr. Todd has found examples of it as an adjective. But the derivation is surely from the English word alone, and not from a foreign source. †ALONGST. Along.

And as alongst I did my journey take,

I dranke at Broomes-well, for pure fashions sake.
Taylor's Workes, 1630.
He that, still stooping, toghes against the tide
His laden barge alongst a rivers side,
And filling shoars with shouts, doth melt him quite;
Upon his pallet resteth yet at night.

Du Bartas, by Sylvester. Low down; the common ALOW, adv. correlative to aloft, but used without it in the following instance.

Not the thousandth part so much for your learning, and what other gifts els you have, as that you will creep alowe by the ground. Fox's Life of Tindal. See Wordsw. Eccl. Biog., ii, 266, and the note. Todd has aloft and alow together, from Dryden.

ALOYSE. A word, of which the mean

ing and etymology are both uncertain. Aloyse, aloyse, how pretie it is! is not here a good face? O. Pl., i, 226.

Chaucer uses alosed for praised, but that seems not to afford any illustra tion. Perhaps it may be for alas! alas! There is much corrupted language in the same scene.

ALS.

At the same time.
And the cleane waves with purple gore did ray,
Als in her lap a lovely babe did play.

Sp., F. Q., II, i, 40, ALSATIA. A jocular name for a part of the City of London, near Fleet Street, properly called the White Friars, from a convent of Carmelites formerly there situated. "In the year 1608," says an account of London, "the inhabitants [of this district] obtained several liberties, privileges, and exemptions, by a charter granted them by King James I; and this rendered the place an asylum for insolvent debtors, cheats, and gamesters, who gave to this district the name of Alsatia ;' but the inconvenience