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[ALLOW (2).] I. Ordinary Language: *1. An allotment, an appointed portion of food, liquor, . "Short allowance of victual." Long fellow: Miles Standish , v. "In such a scant allowance of star-light." Milton: Coтия, 308. 2. An abatement, deduction. "Allowrunce in rekonynge. Subductio."- Hulost: Abecedarium. (a) Figuratively: (1) An excuse. "The whole poem, though written in heroick verse, is of the Pindarick nature, as well in the thought as the expre ion; and as such, requires the same grains of allowance for it." -Dryden. (2) An abatement. "After making the greatest allowance for fraud."Macaulay: Hist . Eng ., ch. xxi, *3. Permi ion, licence, indulgence. "They should therefore he accustomed betimes to consult and make use of their reason before they give allowance to their inclinations."-Locke. 4. A ent, acknowledgment; a ent to the truth of an opinion; admi ion that there is justice in a claim. "Modesty in general which is a tacit allowance of imperfection."- Burke: Sublime & Beautiful, i. 332. 5. Sufferance, permi ion. "There were many causes of difference; the chief being the allowance of slavery in the South."-Freeman: Gen. Sketch of Hist ., p. 364. 6. A stated sum of money given in lieu of rations, of food, ., or designed to enable a person occupying a high official station to dispense hospitality on a large scale. that, though he drew a large allowance under pretence of keeping a public table, he never asked an officer to dinner."-Macaulay: Hist. Eng., ch. xiv. IL Technically: (a) Law: 1. The state of being admitted: as, the allowance of a franchise = the admi ion that a franchise which one has been exercising, or claims legitimately, belongs to him. ( Black stone: Comment . , bk. iii., ch. 17.) 2. The state of being granted: as, the allowance of a pardon = the granting of a pardon; the allowance of a writ of error the permi ion to obtain a writ of error. ( Black stone : Comment., bk. iv., chaps. 30, 31.) 3. Money or property allotted, as, for instance, that which is allotted to a bankrupt for subsistence. ( Black stone : Comment., ii. 31.) (b) Comm. Deductions from the weight of goods sold on account of the weight of the packages in which they are enclosed; or, more specifically, for draft, tare, tret, and cloff (q.v.).