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   on all fours
         adv 1: on hands and knees; "he got down on all fours to play
                  with his grandson"

English Dictionary: only if by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
one-half
n
  1. one of two equal parts of a divisible whole; "half a loaf"; "half an hour"; "a century and one half"
    Synonym(s): one-half, half
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
only if
adv
  1. never except when; "call me only if your cold gets worse"
    Synonym(s): only, only if, only when
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   All fours \All` fours"\ [formerly, {All` four"}.]
      All four legs of a quadruped; or the two legs and two arms of
      a person.
  
      {To be}, {go}, or {run}, {on all fours} (Fig.), to be on the
            same footing; to correspond (with) exactly; to be alike in
            all the circumstances to be considered. [bd]This example
            is on all fours with the other.[b8] [bd]No simile can go
            on all fours.[b8] --Macaulay.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Live \Live\, n.
      Life. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
  
      {On live}, in life; alive. [Obs.] See {Alive}. --Chaucer.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Loft \Loft\, n. [Icel. lopt air, heaven, loft, upper room; akin
      to AS. lyft air, G. luft, Dan. loft loft, Goth. luftus air.
      Cf. {Lift}, v. & n. ]
      That which is lifted up; an elevation. Hence, especially:
      (a) The room or space under a roof and above the ceiling of
            the uppermost story.
      (b) A gallery or raised apartment in a church, hall, etc.;
            as, an organ loft.
      (c) A floor or room placed above another; a story.
  
                     Eutychus . . . fell down from the third loft.
                                                                              --Acts xx. 9.
  
      {On loft}, aloft; on high. Cf. {Onloft}. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Onloft \On*loft"\, adv.
      Aloft; above ground. [Obs.]
  
               She kept her father's life onloft.         --Chaucer.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
  
  
      {Anniversary day}. See {Anniversary}, n.
  
      {Astronomical day}, a period equal to the mean solar day, but
            beginning at noon instead of at midnight, its twenty-four
            hours being numbered from 1 to 24; also, the sidereal day,
            as that most used by astronomers.
  
      {Born days}. See under {Born}.
  
      {Canicular days}. See {Dog day}.
  
      {Civil day}, the mean solar day, used in the ordinary
            reckoning of time, and among most modern nations beginning
            at mean midnight; its hours are usually numbered in two
            series, each from 1 to 12. This is the period recognized
            by courts as constituting a day. The Babylonians and
            Hindoos began their day at sunrise, the Athenians and Jews
            at sunset, the ancient Egyptians and Romans at midnight.
           
  
      {Day blindness}. (Med.) See {Nyctalopia}.
  
      {Day by day}, or {Day after day}, daily; every day;
            continually; without intermission of a day. See under
            {By}. [bd]Day by day we magnify thee.[b8] --Book of Common
            Prayer.
  
      {Days in bank} (Eng. Law), certain stated days for the return
            of writs and the appearance of parties; -- so called
            because originally peculiar to the Court of Common Bench,
            or Bench (bank) as it was formerly termed. --Burrill.
  
      {Day in court}, a day for the appearance of parties in a
            suit.
  
      {Days of devotion} (R. C. Ch.), certain festivals on which
            devotion leads the faithful to attend mass. --Shipley.
  
      {Days of grace}. See {Grace}.
  
      {Days of obligation} (R. C. Ch.), festival days when it is
            obligatory on the faithful to attend Mass. --Shipley.
  
      {Day owl}, (Zo[94]l.), an owl that flies by day. See {Hawk
            owl}.
  
      {Day rule} (Eng. Law), an order of court (now abolished)
            allowing a prisoner, under certain circumstances, to go
            beyond the prison limits for a single day.
  
      {Day school}, one which the pupils attend only in daytime, in
            distinction from a boarding school.
  
      {Day sight}. (Med.) See {Hemeralopia}.
  
      {Day's work} (Naut.), the account or reckoning of a ship's
            course for twenty-four hours, from noon to noon.
  
      {From day to day}, as time passes; in the course of time; as,
            he improves from day to day.
  
      {Jewish day}, the time between sunset and sunset.
  
      {Mean solar day} (Astron.), the mean or average of all the
            apparent solar days of the year.
  
      {One day}, {One of these days}, at an uncertain time, usually
            of the future, rarely of the past; sooner or later.
            [bd]Well, niece, I hope to see you one day fitted with a
            husband.[b8] --Shak.
  
      {Only from day to day}, without certainty of continuance;
            temporarily. --Bacon.
  
      {Sidereal day}, the interval between two successive transits
            of the first point of Aries over the same meridian. The
            Sidereal day is 23 h. 56 m. 4.09 s. of mean solar time.
  
      {To win the day}, to gain the victory, to be successful. --S.
            Butler.
  
      {Week day}, any day of the week except Sunday; a working day.
           
  
      {Working day}.
            (a) A day when work may be legally done, in distinction
                  from Sundays and legal holidays.
            (b) The number of hours, determined by law or custom,
                  during which a workman, hired at a stated price per
                  day, must work to be entitled to a day's pay.
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