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Allowance :: Allowance (n.) Acknowledgment.

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..

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

Draught :: Draught (n.) An allowance on weighable goods. [Eng.] See Draft, 4..

Toleration :: Toleration (n.) The act of tolerating; the allowance of that which is not wholly approved.

Tare :: Tare (n.) Deficientcy in the weight or quantity of goods by reason of the weight of the cask, bag, or whatever contains the commodity, and is weighed with it; hence, the allowance or abatement of a certain weight or quantity which the seller makes to the buyer on account of the weight of such cask, bag, etc..

Toleration :: Toleration (n.) Specifically, the allowance of religious opinions and modes of worship in a state when contrary to, or different from, those of the established church or belief..

Sufferance :: Sufferance (n.) Negative consent by not forbidding or hindering; toleration; permission; allowance; leave.

Settle :: Settle (n.) To determine, as something which is exposed to doubt or question; to free from unscertainty or wavering; to make sure, firm, or constant; to establish; to compose; to quiet; as, to settle the mind when agitated; to settle questions of law; to settle the succession to a throne; to settle an allowance..

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..

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

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

Allocatur :: Allocatur (n.) Allowed. The word allocatur expresses the allowance of a proceeding, writ, order, etc., by a court, judge, or judicial officer..

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

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

Leave :: Leave (n.) Liberty granted by which restraint or illegality is removed; permission; allowance; license.

Discount :: Discount (v.) To lend money upon, deducting the discount or allowance for interest; as, the banks discount notes and bills of exchange..

Tommy :: Tommy (n.) Bread, -- generally a penny roll; the supply of food carried by workmen as their daily allowance..

Salt :: Salt (n.) Fig.: That which preserves from corruption or error; that which purifies; a corrective; an antiseptic; also, an allowance or deduction; as, his statements must be taken with a grain of salt..

Grant :: Grant (v. t.) The act of granting; a bestowing or conferring; concession; allowance; permission.

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