Note: In the ancient phrases, all too dear, all too much, all so long, etc., this word retains its appropriate sense or becomes intensive.

2. 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 have commonly been regarded as forming a compound adverb, equivalent in meaning to entirely, completely, altogether. But the sense of entireness lies wholly in the word all (as it does in ``all forlorn,'' and similar expressions), and the to properly belongs to the following word, being a kind of intensive prefix (orig. meaning asunder and answering to the LG. ter-, HG. zer-). It is frequently to be met with in old books, used without the all. Thus Wyclif says, ``The vail of the temple was to rent:'' and of Judas, ``He was hanged and to-burst the middle:'' i. e., burst in two, or asunder.

All along. See under Along.

All and some, individually and collectively, one and all. [Obs.]

``Displeased all and some.'' --Fairfax.

All but.
   (a) Scarcely; not even. [Obs.]

--Shak.
   (b) Almost; nearly. ``The fine arts were all but proscribed.'' --Macaulay.

All hollow, entirely, completely; as, to beat any one all hollow. [Low]

All one, the same thing in effect; that is, wholly the same thing.

All over, over the whole extent; thoroughly; wholly; as, she is her mother all over. [Colloq.]

All the better, wholly the better; that is, better by the whole difference.

All the same, nevertheless. ``There they [certain phenomena] remain rooted all the same, whether we recognize them or not.'' --J. C. Shairp. ``But Rugby is a very nice place all the same.'' --T. Arnold. -- See also under All, n.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)