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 obsolete ALLOW'ANCE, verb transitive To put upon allowance; to restrain or limit to a certain quantity of provisions or drink.Distress compelled the captain of the ship to allowance his crew.

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allowance. Allowance, v.t. to put upon allowance

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Al‐low″ance (�), n. [[OF. alouance.]] 1. 1. Approval; approbation. Crabbe.
2. 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. 3. Acknowledgment.
The censure of the which one must in your allowance o'erweigh a whole theater of others. Shak. 4. 4. License; indulgence. Locke.
5. 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. 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. 7. (com.) A customary deduction from the gross weight of goods, different in different countries, such as tare and tret.