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"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.]

To admit; to concede; to make allowance or abatement. Allowing still for the different ways of making it. Addison. To allow of, to permit; to admit. Shak.

By allowance; admittedly. Shenstone.

ef alternate in his breast. J. Philips. Different species alternating with each other. Kirwan.

Imbecility; total want of understanding.

An amorous girl or woman; a wanton. [Obs.] J. Warton.

A wanton woman; a courtesan. Sir T. Herbert.

Having no determinate form; of irregular; shapeless. Kirwan.

Wanting the spinal cord.

Wanting in muscle; without flesh.

A want of grammatical sequence or coherence in a sentence; an instance of a change of construction in a sentence so that the latter part does not syntactically correspond with the first part.

That which annoys. A grain, a dust, a gnat, a wandering hair, Any annoyance in that precious sense. Shak.

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

An indicator (as in a hotel) which designates the room where attendance is wanted.

Want or defect of sight; blindness.

Want of appetite, without a loathing of food. Coxe.

Want of feeling; privation of passion, emotion, or excitement; dispassion; -- applied either to the body or the mind. As applied to the mind, it is a calmness, indolence, or state of indifference, incapable of being ruffled or roused to active interest or exertion by pleasure, pain, or passion. "The apathy of despair."…

Want of love to mankind; -- the opposite of philanthropy. Coxe.

An order of holothurians in which the internal respiratory organs are wanting; -- called also Apoda or Apodes.