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g; authorization; permission; sanction; tolerance. Without the king's will or the state's allowance. Shak.

The act of disallowing; refusal to admit or permit; rejection.

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

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 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.]

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.

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.

Extra pay; esp. an extra allowance to an English officer serving in India. Whitworth.

A privilege or allowance of necessaries.

An allowance of meat and drink for the tables of inferior officers or servants in a nobleman's palace or at court. [Obs.]

An allowance or compensation for things broken accidentally, as in transportation or use.

Formerly an allowance of two pounds in every three hundred weight after the tare and tret are subtracted; now used only in a general sense, of small deductions from the original weight. [Written also clough.] McCulloch.

An allowance in weighing. See Cloff.

The brokerage or allowance made to a factor or agent for transacting business for another; as, a commission of ten per cent on sales. See Del credere. Commission of array. (Eng. Hist.) See under Array. -- Commission of bankrupty, a commission apointing and empowering certain persons to examine into the facts relative…

licenses, divorces, registration of wills, etc. -- To be on short commons, to have small allowance of food. [Colloq.]