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Allotment. [Obs.] Shak.

To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction. [Obs. or Archaic] Ye allow the deeds of your fathers. Luke xi. 48. We commend his pains, condemn his pride, allow his life, approve his learning. Fuller.

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.

The quality of being allowable; permissibleness; lawfulness; exemption from prohibition or impropriety. South.

In an allowable manner.

The act of allowing, granting, conceding, or admitting; authorization; permission; sanction; tolerance. Without the king's will or the state's allowance. Shak.

By allowance; admittedly. Shenstone.

One who allows or permits.

An oxidation product of uric acid. It is of a pale reddish color, readily soluble in water or alcohol.

A combination of alloxanic acid and a base or base or positive radical.

Of or pertaining to alloxan; -- applied to an acid obtained by the action of soluble alkalies on alloxan.

A substance produced by acting upon uric with warm and very dilute nitric acid.

r compound of metals fused together; a mixture of metals; for example, brass, which is an alloy of copper and zinc. But when mercury is one of the metals, the compound is called an amalgam.

Any steel containing a notable quantity of some other metal alloyed with the iron, usually chromium, nickel, manganese, tungsten, or vanadium.

The act or art of alloying metals; also, the combination or alloy.

es; and hence the name. The name is also given to other aromatic shrubs; as, the Carolina allspice (Calycanthus floridus); wild allspice (Lindera benzoin), called also spicebush, spicewood, and feverbush.

Altogether. [Obs.] Shak.

efer to something indirectly or by suggestion; to have reference to a subject not specifically and plainly mentioned; -- followed by to; as, the story alludes to a recent transaction. These speeches . . . do seem to allude unto such ministerial garments as were then in use. Hooker.

A match for lighting candles, lamps, etc.

An illuminator of manuscripts and books; a limner. [Obs.] Cowell.