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

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

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

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

Scant :: Scant (superl.) Not full, large, or plentiful; scarcely sufficient; less than is wanted for the purpose; scanty; meager; not enough; as, a scant allowance of provisions or water; a scant pattern of cloth for a garment..

Neat :: Neat (a.) With all deductions or allowances made; net. [In this sense usually written net. See Net, a., 3.].

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

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

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.

Breakage :: Breakage (n.) An allowance or compensation for things broken accidentally, as in transportation or use..

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

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

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

Batta :: Batta (n.) Extra pay; esp. an extra allowance to an English officer serving in India.

Discount :: Discount (v. t.) A counting off or deduction made from a gross sum on any account whatever; an allowance upon an account, debt, demand, price asked, and the like; something taken or deducted..

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

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

Cloff :: Cloff (n.) Formerly an allowance of two pounds in every three hundred weight after the tare and tret are subtracted; now used only in a general sense, of small deductions from the original weight..

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

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

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