† have-at-alln.
Obsolete.
1. The action or an act of risking all of one's money in a gamble. Cf. have v. 27b.
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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > [noun] > risk > act of putting to risk
have-at-allc1575
jump1600
wager1855
c1575 R. Rice Inuectiue againste Vices sig. G.ij The good manne of the house, hath bestowed al his money so warely at Sice and Cinck or haue at all, or at the Spades, Hartes, Diamondes, and Clubbes.
1622 S. Rowlands Good Newes & Bad Newes sig. Bv Her dearest Knight..What with his debts, and what with Haue at all; Lay hidden like a sauage in his den, For feare of Bayliffes, Sergeants, Marshals men.
a1635 T. Randolph Muses Looking-glasse ii. iv. 34 in Poems (1638) But you will starve your selfe, that when y'are rotten, One—Have at all of mine may set it flying. And I will have your bones cut into dice, And make you guilty of the spending of it.
1665 R. Head Eng. Rogue I. xlvi. 41 We..concluded, it was a thing beneath us to pick up here and there Crowns or Angels but resolved on Have at all.
2. A promiscuous man; a rake. rare.
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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > profligacy, dissoluteness, or debauchery > [noun] > person
unthriftc1330
riotor1389
rioterc1440
palliard1484
skyrgalliarda1529
rakehellc1560
ranger1560
rakeshame1598
dissolute1608
pavement-beater1611
rakell1622
ranter1652
huzza1660
whorehopper1664
profligate1679
rakehellonian1692
rake1693
buck1725
blood1749
gay blade1750
have-at-alla1761
rakehellyc1768
hell-rake?1774
randan1779
rip1781
roué1781
hell-raker1816
tiger1827
raver1960
dog1994
a1761 R. Nash in O. Goldsmith Life of R. Nash (1762) 33 That the younger ladies take notice how many eyes observe them. N.B. This does not extend to the Have-at-alls.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2015; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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