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Allow
v. t.
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To grant (something) as a deduction or an addition; esp. to abate or deduct; as, to allow a sum for leakage.
Allow
v. t.
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To grant license to; to permit; to consent to; as, to allow a son to be absent.
Allow
v. i.
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To admit; to concede; to make allowance or abatement.
Allowable
a.
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Praiseworthy; laudable.
Allowable
a.
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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.
Allowableness
n.
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The quality of being allowable; permissibleness; lawfulness; exemption from prohibition or impropriety.
Allowably
adv.
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In an allowable manner.
Allowance
n.
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Approval; approbation.
Allowance
n.
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The act of allowing, granting, conceding, or admitting; authorization; permission; sanction; tolerance.
Allowance
n.
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Acknowledgment.
Allowance
n.
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License; indulgence.
Allowance
n.
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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.
Allowance
n.
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Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances; as, to make allowance for the inexperience of youth.
Allowance
n.
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A customary deduction from the gross weight of goods, different in different countries, such as tare and tret.
Allowancing
imp. & p. p.
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of Allowance
Allowance
n.
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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.
Allowedly
adv.
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By allowance; admittedly.
Allower
n.
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An approver or abettor.
Allower
n.
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One who allows or permits.
Alloxan
n.
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An oxidation product of uric acid. It is of a pale reddish color, readily soluble in water or alcohol.
Alloxanate
n.
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A combination of alloxanic acid and a base or base or positive radical.
Alloxanic
a.
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Of or pertaining to alloxan; -- applied to an acid obtained by the action of soluble alkalies on alloxan.
Alloxantin
n.
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A substance produced by acting upon uric with warm and very dilute nitric acid.
Alloy
v. t.
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Any combination or 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.
Alloy
v. t.
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The quality, or comparative purity, of gold or silver; fineness.
Alloy
v. t.
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A baser metal mixed with a finer.
Alloy
v. t.
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Admixture of anything which lessens the value or detracts from; as, no happiness is without alloy.
Alloyed
imp. & p. p.
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of Alloy
Alloying
p. pr. & vb. n.
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of Alloy
Alloy
v. t.
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To reduce the purity of by mixing with a less valuable substance; as, to alloy gold with silver or copper, or silver with copper.