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Definition of allowance

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Allowance (n.) That which is allowed; a share or portion allotted or granted; a sum granted as a reimbursement, a bounty, or as appropriate for any purpose; a stated quantity, as of food or drink; hence, a limited quantity of meat and drink, when provisions fall short..

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

Genteel :: Genteel (a.) Suited to the position of lady or a gentleman; as, to live in a genteel allowance..

Allowedly :: Allowedly (adv.) By allowance; admittedly.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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..

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

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

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

Corody :: Corody (n.) An allowance of meat, drink, or clothing due from an abbey or other religious house for the sustenance of such of the king's servants as he may designate to receive it..

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

Dispart :: Dispart (v. t.) To make allowance for the dispart in (a gun), when taking aim..

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

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

Feed :: Feed (n.) An allowance of provender given to a horse, cow, etc.; a meal; as, a feed of corn or oats..