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<p><b>7.</b> <def>To grant license to; to permit; to consent to; <as>as, to <ex>allow</ex> a son to be absent</as>.</def>

<syn>Syn. -- To allot; assign; bestow; concede; admit; permit; suffer; tolerate. See <er>Permit</er>.</syn>

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<hw>Al*low"</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To admit; to concede; to make allowance or abatement.</def>

<blockquote><b>Allowing</b> still for the different ways of making it. <i>Addison.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>To allow of</col>, <cd>to permit; to admit.</cd></cs>

<i>Shak.</i>

<h1>Allowable</h1> <Xpage=42>

<hw>Al*low"a*ble</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>allouable</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Praiseworthy; laudable.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Hacket.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Proper to be, or capable of being, allowed; permissible; admissible; not forbidden; not unlawful or improper; <as>as, a certain degree of freedom is <ex>allowable</ex> among friends</as>.</def>

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<hw>Al*low"a*ble*ness</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The quality of being allowable; permissibleness; lawfulness; exemption from prohibition or impropriety.</def>

<i>South.</i>

<h1>Allowably</h1> <Xpage=42>

<hw>Al*low"a*bly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>In an allowable manner.</def>

<h1>Allowance</h1> <Xpage=42>

<hw>Al*low"ance</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OF. <ets>alouance</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Approval; approbation.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Crabbe.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The act of allowing, granting, conceding, or admitting; authorization; permission; sanction; tolerance.</def>

<blockquote>Without the king's will or the state's <b>allowance</b>. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Acknowledgment.</def>

<blockquote>The censure of the which one must in your <b>allowance</b> o'erweigh a whole theater of others. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>License; indulgence.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Locke.</i>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>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.</def>

<blockquote>I can give the boy a handsome <b>allowance</b>. <i>Thackeray.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>6.</b> <def>Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances; <as>as, to make <ex>allowance</ex> for the inexperience of youth</as>.</def>