Definition of allow

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Allow (v. t.) To grant, give, admit, accord, afford, or yield; to let one have; as, to allow a servant his liberty; to allow a free passage; to allow one day for rest..

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Shoaliness :: Shoaliness (n.) The quality or state of being shoaly; little depth of water; shallowness.
Permissible :: Permissible (a.) That may be permitted; allowable; admissible.
Annealing :: Annealing (n.) The process used to render glass, iron, etc., less brittle, performed by allowing them to cool very gradually from a high heat..
Appointment :: Appointment (n.) An allowance to a person, esp. to a public officer; a perquisite; -- properly only in the plural..
Sustain :: Sustain (v. t.) To allow the prosecution of; to admit as valid; to sanction; to continue; not to dismiss or abate; as, the court sustained the action or suit..
Musang :: Musang (n.) A small animal of Java (Paradoxirus fasciatus), allied to the civets. It swallows, but does not digest, large quantities of ripe coffee berries, thus serving to disseminate the coffee plant; hence it is called also coffee rat..
Vail :: Vail (v. t.) To let fail; to allow or cause to sink.
Progne :: Progne (n.) A genus of swallows including the purple martin. See Martin.
Engorged :: Engorged (p. a.) Swallowed with greediness, or in large draughts..
Intolerable :: Intolerable (a.) Not tolerable; not capable of being borne or endured; not proper or right to be allowed; insufferable; insupportable; unbearable; as, intolerable pain; intolerable heat or cold; an intolerable burden..
Introsume :: Introsume (v. t.) To draw in; to swallow.
Gallow :: Gallow (v. t.) To fright or terrify. See Gally, v. t..
Yield :: Yield (v. t.) To admit to be true; to concede; to allow.
Fissirostral :: Fissirostral (a.) Having the bill cleft beyond the horny part, as in the case of swallows and goatsuckers..
Bate :: Bate (v. t.) To allow by way of abatement or deduction.
Stuff :: Stuff (v. t.) A melted mass of turpentine, tallow, etc., with which the masts, sides, and bottom of a ship are smeared for lubrication..
Zither :: Zither (n.) An instrument of music used in Austria and Germany. It has from thirty to forty wires strung across a shallow sounding-board, which lies horizontally on a table before the performer, who uses both hands in playing on it. [Not to be confounded with the old lute-shaped cittern, or cithern.].
Bethel :: Bethel (n.) A place of worship; a hallowed spot.
Asclepias :: Asclepias (n.) A genus of plants including the milkweed, swallowwort, and some other species having medicinal properties..
Republican :: Republican (n.) The American cliff swallow. The cliff swallows build their nests side by side, many together..
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