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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.
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.
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.
Alloy
v. t.
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To mix, as metals, so as to form a compound.
Alloy
v. t.
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To abate, impair, or debase by mixture; to allay; as, to alloy pleasure with misfortunes.
Alloy
v. t.
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To form a metallic compound.
Alloyage
n.
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The act or art of alloying metals; also, the combination or alloy.
All-possessed
a.
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Controlled by an evil spirit or by evil passions; wild.
All Saints
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Alt. of All Saints'
All Saints'
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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.