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Al*low"ance (&unr_;), n. [OF. alouance.] 1. Approval; approbation. [Obs.] Crabbe.
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2. The act of allowing, granting, conceding, or admitting; authorization; permission; sanction; tolerance.
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Without the king's will or the state's allowance. Shak.
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3. Acknowledgment.
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The censure of the which one must in your allowance o'erweigh a whole theater of others. Shak.
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4. License; indulgence. [Obs.] Locke.
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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.
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I can give the boy a handsome allowance. Thackeray.
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6. Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances; as, to make allowance for the inexperience of youth.
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After making the largest allowance for fraud. Macaulay.
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7. (com.) A customary deduction from the gross weight of goods, different in different countries, such as tare and tret.
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Al*low"ance, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Allowancing (&unr_;).] [See Allowance, n.] 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.
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