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Webster 1913 Edition
Allowance
Al-low′ance
,Noun.
[OF.
alouance
.] 1.
Approval; approbation.
[Obs.]
Crabbe.
2.
The act of allowing, granting, conceding, or admitting; authorization; permission; sanction; tolerance.
Without the king’s will or the state's
allowance
. Shakespeare
3.
Acknowledgment.
The censure of the which one must in your
allowance
o'erweigh a whole theater of others. Shakespeare
4.
License; indulgence.
[Obs.]
Locke.
5.
That which is allowed; a share or portion allotted or granted; a sum granted as a reimbursement, a bounty, or as appropriate for any purpose; a stated quantity, as of food or drink; hence, a limited quantity of meat and drink, when provisions fall short.
I can give the boy a handsome
allowance
. Thackeray.
6.
Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances;
as, to make
. allowance
for the inexperience of youthAfter making the largest
allowance
for fraud. Macaulay.
7.
(com.)
A customary deduction from the gross weight of goods, different in different countries, such as tare and tret.
Al-low′ance
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Allowancing
.] [See ]
Allowance
, Noun.
To put upon a fixed allowance (esp. of provisions and drink); to supply in a fixed and limited quantity;
as, the captain was obliged to
allowance
his crew; our provisions were allowanced
.Webster 1828 Edition
Allowance
ALLOW'ANCE
,Noun.
1.
The act of allowing or admitting.2.
Permission; license; approbation; sanction; usually slight approbation.3.
Admission; assent to a fact or state of things; a granting.4.
Freedom from restraint; indulgence.5.
That which is allowed; a portion appointed; a stated quantity, as of food or drink; hence, in seamen's language, a limited quantity of meat and drink, when provisions fall short.6.
Abatement; deduction; as, to make an allowance for the inexperience of youth.7.
Established character; reputation; as, a pilot of approved allowance. Obs.ALLOW'ANCE
,Verb.
T.
Distress compelled the captain of the ship to allowance his crew.