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

Rate :: Rate (n.) Established portion or measure; fixed allowance.

Skimp :: Skimp (v. t.) To make insufficient allowance for; to scant; to scrimp.

Factorage :: Factorage (n.) The allowance given to a factor, as a compensation for his services; -- called also a 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..

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

Appointment :: Appointment (n.) An allowance to a person, esp. to a public officer; a perquisite; -- properly only in the plural..

Clough :: Clough (n.) An allowance in weighing. See Cloff.

Stint :: Stint (v. t.) To restrain within certain limits; to bound; to confine; to restrain; to restrict to a scant allowance.

Exhibition :: Exhibition (n.) Sustenance; maintenance; allowance, esp. for meat and drink; pension. Specifically: (Eng. Univ.) Private benefaction for the maintenance of scholars..

Mileage :: Mileage (n.) An allowance for traveling expenses at a certain rate per mile.

Aliment :: Aliment (n.) An allowance for maintenance.

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..

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..

Permittance :: Permittance (n.) The act of permitting; allowance; permission; leave.

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

Readmittance :: Readmittance (n.) Allowance to enter again; a second admission.

Size :: Size (n.) An allowance of food and drink from the buttery, aside from the regular dinner at commons; -- corresponding to battel at Oxford..

Livery :: Livery (n.) An allowance of food statedly given out; a ration, as to a family, to servants, to horses, etc..

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

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