all is i on

[Lat. allisio, from allido = to strike or dash against: ad = to, and lædo.] 1. Ordinary Lang .: A striking or dashing against with violence. "There have not been any islands of note or considerable extent torn and cast off from the continent by earthquakes, or severed from it by the boisterous all is i on of the sea.."- Woodward. 2. Marine Law : The running of one ve el against another. The same as COLLISION (Q. v.). al-lit-er-al, a. [Lat. ad to, and literal is = pertaining to a letter; liter a = a letter.] 1. Ordinary Lang.: Pertaining to the practice of commencing two or more words in immediate succe ion with the same letter. 2. Ethnol. and Philol .: A term applied by Apple yard to the Caffre family of languages. ( Max Müller : Science of Lang.)