v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Allowed p. pr. & vb. n. Allowing. ] [ OE. alouen, OF. alouer, aloer, aluer, F. allouer, fr. LL. allocare to admit as proved, to place, use; confused with OF. aloer, fr. L. allaudare to extol; ad + laudare to praise. See Local, and cf. Allocate, Laud. ] 1. To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction. [ Obs. or Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Ye allow the deeds of your fathers. Luke xi. 48. [ 1913 Webster ]

We commend his pains, condemn his pride, allow his life, approve his learning. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To like; to be suited or pleased with. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

How allow you the model of these clothes? Massinger. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To sanction; to invest; to intrust. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Thou shalt be . . . allowed with absolute power. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

He was allowed about three hundred pounds a year. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

I allow, with Mrs. Grundy and most moralists, that Miss Newcome's conduct . . . was highly reprehensible. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. To grant (something) as a deduction or an addition; esp. to abate or deduct; as, to allow a sum for leakage. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. To grant license to; to permit; to consent to; as, to allow a son to be absent. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To allot; assign; bestow; concede; admit; permit; suffer; tolerate. See Permit. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To admit; to concede; to make allowance or abatement. [ 1913 Webster ]

Allowing still for the different ways of making it. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

To allow of, to permit; to admit. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. allouable. ] 1. Praiseworthy; laudable. [ Obs. ] Hacket. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being allowable; permissibleness; lawfulness; exemption from prohibition or impropriety. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an allowable manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. alouance. ] 1. Approval; approbation. [ Obs. ] Crabbe. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of allowing, granting, conceding, or admitting; authorization; permission; sanction; tolerance. [ 1913 Webster ]

Without the king's will or the state's allowance. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Acknowledgment. [ 1913 Webster ]

The censure of the which one must in your allowance o'erweigh a whole theater of others. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. License; indulgence. [ Obs. ] Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

I can give the boy a handsome allowance. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances; as, to make allowance for the inexperience of youth. [ 1913 Webster ]

After making the largest allowance for fraud. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. (com.) A customary deduction from the gross weight of goods, different in different countries, such as tare and tret. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>adv. By allowance; admittedly. Shenstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. An approver or abettor. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who allows or permits. [ 1913 Webster ]