Obs. [a. 16th c. Fr. alte; or modification of the earlier ALTO after Fr.] A halt; only in phr. to make alt (Fr. faire alte).
1623. Bingham, Xenophon, 61. Cherisophus, that at other times vpon the receit of such messages made vsually Alt, made not Alt then.
1664. S. Clarke, Tamerlane, 44. The Sultan made divers Alts with four thousand horse.
