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Annuity :: Annuity (n.) A sum of money, payable yearly, to continue for a given number of years, for life, or forever; an annual allowance..

Firebote :: Firebote (n.) An allowance of fuel. See Bote.

Dietary :: Dietary (n.) A rule of diet; a fixed allowance of food, as in workhouse, prison, etc..

Pensioner :: Pensioner (n.) One of an honorable band of gentlemen who attend the sovereign of England on state occasions, and receive an annual pension, or allowance, of £150 and two horses..

Size :: Size (n.) A settled quantity or allowance. See Assize.

Admittance :: Admittance (n.) Concession; admission; allowance; as, the admittance of an argument..

Tret :: Tret (n.) An allowance to purchasers, for waste or refuse matter, of four pounds on every 104 pounds of suttle weight, or weight after the tare deducted..

Portionist :: Portionist (n.) A scholar at Merton College, Oxford, who has a certain academical allowance or portion; -- corrupted into postmaster..

Bote :: Bote (n.) A privilege or allowance of necessaries.

Shorten :: Shorten (a.) To reduce or diminish in amount, quantity, or extent; to lessen; to abridge; to curtail; to contract; as, to shorten work, an allowance of food, etc..

Allotment :: Allotment (n.) The allowance of a specific amount of scrip or of a particular thing to a particular person.

Allocation :: Allocation (n.) The admission of an item in an account, or an allowance made upon an account; -- a term used in the English exchequer..

Warrant :: Warrant (n.) Right; legality; allowance.

Quarterage :: Quarterage (n.) A quarterly allowance.

Diet :: Diet (n.) A course of food selected with reference to a particular state of health; prescribed allowance of food; regimen prescribed.

Pension :: Pension (n.) A stated allowance to a person in consideration of past services; payment made to one retired from service, on account of age, disability, or other cause; especially, a regular stipend paid by a government to retired public officers, disabled soldiers, the families of soldiers killed in service, or to meritorious authors, or the like..

Correction :: Correction (n.) An allowance made for inaccuracy in an instrument; as, chronometer correction; compass correction..

Allowance :: Allowance (n.) License; indulgence.

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..

Handicap :: Handicap (n.) A race, for horses or men, or any contest of agility, strength, or skill, in which there is an allowance of time, distance, weight, or other advantage, to equalize the chances of the competitors..

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