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 4. To be all out also signifies[** miss. - fixed] to be in error; quite wrong.

5. (turf).--A man is said to be all out when unsuccessful during the whole of a day's racing.

6. (Stock Exchange).--See All in.

7. (athletic).--Exhausted; said of a man or crew who, having exerted him or themselves to the utmost, can do no more.

1886. Graphic, April 10, p. 392. Pitman, the Cambridge stroke, after passing the 'Queen's Head,' Mortlake, put on a grand spurt, to which his crew fairly responded, though pretty well all out.

All-Overish, adj. (colloquial). An indefinite feeling which pervades the body at critical periods, when sickening for an illness, or at a moment of supreme excitement, as when about to 'pop the question' which, says Hotten, 'is sometimes called feeling all over alike, and touching nowhere.' Synonyms are 'to feel all round one's hat,' and 'chippy.'

1851. H. Mayhew, London Lab. and Lon. Poor, vol. III., p. 52. 'When the mob began to gather round, I felt all-overish.'

All-overishness, Subs. (colloquial).--The state of being all-overish.--See foregoing.

1854. Ainsworth, Flitch of Bacon, pt. II., ch. v. 'I feel a sort of shivering and all-overishness.'

1841. John Mills, Old English Gentleman, ch. xxiv., p. 186 (3 ed.). 'Isn't it natural for a body to feel a sort of a queer all-overishness on the eve of a wedding, I should like to know?'

All over Pattern, subs. phr. (common). Used in describing patterns that are intricate, or designs in which the pattern is not of a set character.

1881. F. E. Hulme. Suggestions in Floral Design. A term [all over pattern] used to denote a design in which the whole of a field is covered with ornament in contradistinction to such as have units only at intervals, leaving spaces of the ground between them. The ornament of the Moors as seen in the decorations of the Alhambra, and that of Eastern nations generally, is most commonly of this nature; the whole surface of the object is covered with decorative forms so as to present to the eye a mass of elaborate detail, the leading lines of which can often only be detected by careful scrutiny. When, as in some Persian surfaces, these lines are often quite lost, the result is unsatisfactory.

All Over the Shop, adv. phr. (common).--1. A phrase applied to any ubiquitous person, thing or deed.--See Shop.

1883. G. R. Sims, Lifeboat, etc. (Awful Character). He kills little babies all over the shop, each day in a river one thrown is.

2. Disconcerted.

1887. E. E. Money, Little Dutch Maiden, II., xi., 225. 'Oh, please don't blush; it makes me feel all over the shop.'

Allow, subs. (Harrow School).--A boy's weekly allowance.

Allowances, subs. (tailors').--The extra measure in cutting cloth for a garment to permit of turnings in for seams; also the trimmings, such as wadding, buttons, braid, etc. Rather technical than slang.

All Round, adj. (popular).--1. Able in all departments; adaptable in every respect to the purpose in view. Whether applied to sport, business, or indeed any department of life or thought, within a