Definition of allow

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Allow (v. t.) To grant license to; to permit; to consent to; as, to allow a son to be absent..

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Dubbing :: Dubbing (n.) A dressing of flour and water used by weavers; a mixture of oil and tallow for dressing leather; daubing.
Allow :: 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..
Admit :: Admit (v. t.) To allow (one) to enter on an office or to enjoy a privilege; to recognize as qualified for a franchise; as, to admit an attorney to practice law; the prisoner was admitted to bail..
Allow :: Allow (v. t.) To sanction; to invest; to intrust.
Permit :: Permit (v. t.) To consent to; to allow or suffer to be done; to tolerate; to put up with.
Walter :: Walter (v. i.) To roll or wallow; to welter.
Give :: Give (n.) To grant power or license to; to permit; to allow; to license; to commission.
Allowance :: Allowance (n.) 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..
Tallowing :: Tallowing (n.) The act, or art, of causing animals to produce tallow; also, the property in animals of producing tallow..
Callow :: Callow (a.) Immature; boyish; green; as, a callow youth..
Split :: Split (n.) the division by a player of one hand of blackjack into two hands, allowed when the first two cards dealt to a player have the same value; the player is usually obliged to increase the amount wagered by placing a sum equal to the original bet on the new hand thus created..
Bouch :: Bouch (n.) An allowance of meat and drink for the tables of inferior officers or servants in a nobleman's palace or at court.
Valve :: Valve (n.) A small portion of certain anthers, which opens like a trapdoor to allow the pollen to escape, as in the barberry..
Hirundo :: Hirundo (n.) A genus of birds including the swallows and martins.
Sanctify :: Sanctify (v. t.) To make sacred or holy; to set apart to a holy or religious use; to consecrate by appropriate rites; to hallow.
Ration :: Ration (n.) A fixed daily allowance of provisions assigned to a soldier in the army, or a sailor in the navy, for his subsistence..
Limitation :: Limitation (v. t.) A certain precinct within which friars were allowed to beg, or exercise their functions; also, the time during which they were permitted to exercise their functions in such a district..
Deign :: Deign (v. t.) To condescend to give or bestow; to stoop to furnish; to vouchsafe; to allow; to grant.
Merge :: Merge (v. i.) To be sunk, swallowed up, or lost..
Catapetalous :: Catapetalous (a.) Having the petals held together by stamens, which grow to their bases, as in the mallow..
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