ALLOWANCES
Noun
allowances
plural of allowance
Source: Wiktionary
ALLOWANCE
Al*low"ance, n. Etym: [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.)
Definition: A customary deduction from the gross weight of goods, different
in different countries, such as tare and tret.
Al*low"ance, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Allowancing.] Etym: [See Allowance,
n.]
Definition: 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.
ALLOWANCE
Al*low"ance, n. Etym: [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.)
Definition: A customary deduction from the gross weight of goods, different
in different countries, such as tare and tret.
Al*low"ance, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Allowancing.] Etym: [See Allowance,
n.]
Definition: 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition