Al*low"ance , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Allowancing
(&?;).]
[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.
Al*low"ance (&?;), n.
[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.
Shak.
3. Acknowledgment.
The censure of the which
one must in
your allowance o'erweigh a whole
theater of others.
Shak.
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 youth.
After 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.
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