er: "she's a
privateer _all over_."--_All overish_, the state of feeling when a man
is neither ill nor well, restless in bed and indifferent to meals. In
the tropics this is considered as the premonitory symptom of disease,
and a warning which should be looked to.--_All ready_, the answer from
the tops when the sails are cast loose, and ready to be dropped.--_All
standing_, fully equipped, or with clothes on. To be brought up _all
standing_, is to be suddenly checked or stopped, without any
preparation.--_Paid off all standing_, without unrigging or waiting to
return stores; perhaps recommissioned the next day or hour.--_All's
well_, the sentry's call at each bell struck (or half hour) between the
periods of broad daylight, or from 8 P.M. to 4 A.M.--_All to pieces_, a
phrase used for out-and-out, extremely, or excessively; as, "we beat her
in sailing _all to pieces_."--_All weathers_, any time or season;
continually.

ALLAN. A word from the Saxon, still used in the north to denote a piece
of land nearly surrounded by a stream.

ALLEGE. A French ballast-boat.

ALLEGIANCE. The legal obedience of a subject to his sovereign in return
for the protection afforded; a debt which, in a natural-born subject,
cannot be cancelled by any change of time, or place, or circumstance,
without the united consent of the legislature.

ALLER-FLOAT, OR ALLER-TROUT. A species of fine trout frequenting the
shady holes under the roots of the _aller_ or alder tree, on the banks
of rivers and brooks.

ALLIANCE. A league or confederacy between sovereigns or states, for
mutual safety and defence. Subjects of allies cannot trade with the
common enemy, on pain of the property being confiscated as prize to the
captors.

ALLICIENCY. The attractive power of the magnet.

ALLIGATOR [from the Spanish _lagarto_]. The crocodile of America. The
head of this voracious animal is flat and imbricate; several of the
under teeth enter into and pass through the upper jaw; the nape is
naked; on the tail are two rough lateral lines.

ALLIGATOR WATER. The brackish water inside the mouths of tropical
rivers, with white and muddy surface running into the sea.

ALLISION. Synonymous in marine law with _collision_, though the jurists
of Holland introduce it to mark a distinction between one vessel running
against another and two vessels striking each other.

ALLOCUTION. The harangue anciently made by the Roman generals to exhort
their forces.

ALLOTMENT. A par