Search the Dictionary

Entitled to be admitted, or worthy of being admitted; that may be allowed or conceded; allowable; as, the supposition is hardly admissible. -- Ad*mis"si*ble*ness, n. -- Ad*mis"si*bly, adv.

To allow (one) to enter on an office or to enjoy a privilege; to recognize as qualified for a franchise; as, to admit an attorney to practice law; the prisoner was admitted to bail.

Concession; admission; allowance; as, the admittance of an argument. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

much heat in the constitution and little serum in the blood. [Obs.] Hence: Atrabilious; sallow; gloomy.

Inability to swallow.

A faucet to allow escape of air.

An allowance for maintenance. [Scot.]

An allowance made to a wife out of her husband's estate or income for her support, upon her divorce or legal separation from him, or during a suit for the same. Wharton. Burrill.

The first day of November, called, also, Allhallows or Hallowmas; a feast day kept in honor of all the saints; also, the season of this festival.

Allhallows. [Obs.] Shak.

The admission of an item in an account, or an allowance made upon an account; -- a term used in the English exchequer.

"Allowed." The word allocatur expresses the allowance of a proceeding, writ, order, etc., by a court, judge, or judicial officer.

The allowance of a specific amount of scrip or of a particular thing to a particular person. Cottage allotment, an allotment of a small portion of land to a country laborer for garden cultivation. [Eng.]

A genus of plants of the Mallow family. It includes the officinal marsh mallow, and the garden hollyhocks.

invariably; uniformly; -- opposed to sometimes or occasionally. He always rides a black galloway. Bulwer.

or others, or by the intent to do such injury. Anger is like A full hot horse, who being allowed his way, Self- mettle tires him. Shak.

The process used to render glass, iron, etc., less brittle, performed by allowing them to cool very gradually from a high heat.

payable yearly, to continue for a given number of years, for life, or forever; an annual allowance.

An allowance to a person, esp. to a public officer; a perquisite; -- properly only in the plural. [Obs.] An expense proportioned to his appointments and fortune is necessary. Chesterfield.

A lamp with a circular hollow wick and glass chimney which allow a current of air both inside and outside of the flame. Argand burner, a burner for an Argand lamp, or a gas burner in which the principle of that lamp is applied.