Allow(v. i.) To admit; to concede; to make allowance or abatement.
Allow(v. t.) To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction.
Allow(v. t.) To like; to be suited or pleased with.
Allow(v. t.) To sanction; to invest; to intrust.
Allow(v. t.) To grant, give, admit, accord, afford, or yield; to let one have; as, to allow a servant his liberty; to allow a free passage; to allow one day for rest.
Allow(v. t.) To own or acknowledge; to accept as true; to concede; to accede to an opinion; as, to allow a right; to allow a claim; to allow the truth of a proposition.
Allow(v. t.) To grant (something) as a deduction or an addition; esp. to abate or deduct; as, to allow a sum for leakage.
Allow(v. t.) To grant license to; to permit; to consent to; as, to allow a son to be absent.
Allowable(a.) Praiseworthy; laudable.
Allowable(a.) Proper to be, or capable of being, allowed; permissible; admissible; not forbidden; not unlawful or improper; as, a certain degree of freedom is allowable among friends.
Allowableness(n.) The quality of being allowable; permissibleness; lawfulness; exemption from prohibition or impropriety.
Allowably(adv.) In an allowable manner.
Allowance(n.) Approval; approbation.
Allowance(n.) The act of allowing, granting, conceding, or admitting; authorization; permission; sanction; tolerance.
Allowance(n.) Acknowledgment.
Allowance(n.) License; indulgence.
Allowance(n.) 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.
Allowance(n.) Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances; as, to make allowance for the inexperience of youth.
Allowance(n.) A customary deduction from the gross weight of goods, different in different countries, such as tare and tret.
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.
Allowed(imp. & p. p.) of Allow
Allowedly(adv.) By allowance; admittedly.
Allower(n.) An approver or abettor.
Allower(n.) One who allows or permits.
Allowing(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Allow
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