*allow*

n. The feast of All Saints. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to the time of Allhallows. [ Obs. ] “Allhallown summer.” Shak. (i. e., late summer; “Indian Summer”). [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. 1. All the saints (in heaven). [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. All Saints' Day, November 1st. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. tīd time. ] The time at or near All Saints, or November 1st. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Allowed p. pr. & vb. n. Allowing. ] [ OE. alouen, OF. alouer, aloer, aluer, F. allouer, fr. LL. allocare to admit as proved, to place, use; confused with OF. aloer, fr. L. allaudare to extol; ad + laudare to praise. See Local, and cf. Allocate, Laud. ] 1. To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction. [ Obs. or Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Ye allow the deeds of your fathers. Luke xi. 48. [ 1913 Webster ]

We commend his pains, condemn his pride, allow his life, approve his learning. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To like; to be suited or pleased with. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

How allow you the model of these clothes? Massinger. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To sanction; to invest; to intrust. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Thou shalt be . . . allowed with absolute power. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To grant, give, admit, accord, afford, or yield; to let one have; as, to allow a servant his liberty; to allow a free passage; to allow one day for rest. [ 1913 Webster ]

He was allowed about three hundred pounds a year. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To own or acknowledge; to accept as true; to concede; to accede to an opinion; as, to allow a right; to allow a claim; to allow the truth of a proposition. [ 1913 Webster ]

I allow, with Mrs. Grundy and most moralists, that Miss Newcome's conduct . . . was highly reprehensible. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. To grant (something) as a deduction or an addition; esp. to abate or deduct; as, to allow a sum for leakage. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. To grant license to; to permit; to consent to; as, to allow a son to be absent. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To allot; assign; bestow; concede; admit; permit; suffer; tolerate. See Permit. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To admit; to concede; to make allowance or abatement. [ 1913 Webster ]

Allowing still for the different ways of making it. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

To allow of, to permit; to admit. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. allouable. ] 1. Praiseworthy; laudable. [ Obs. ] Hacket. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Proper to be, or capable of being, allowed; permissible; admissible; not forbidden; not unlawful or improper; as, a certain degree of freedom is allowable among friends. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being allowable; permissibleness; lawfulness; exemption from prohibition or impropriety. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an allowable manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. alouance. ] 1. Approval; approbation. [ Obs. ] Crabbe. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of allowing, granting, conceding, or admitting; authorization; permission; sanction; tolerance. [ 1913 Webster ]

Without the king's will or the state's allowance. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Acknowledgment. [ 1913 Webster ]

The censure of the which one must in your allowance o'erweigh a whole theater of others. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. License; indulgence. [ Obs. ] Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

I can give the boy a handsome allowance. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances; as, to make allowance for the inexperience of youth. [ 1913 Webster ]

After making the largest allowance for fraud. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. (com.) A customary deduction from the gross weight of goods, different in different countries, such as tare and tret. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Allowancing ] [ See 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>adv. By allowance; admittedly. Shenstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. An approver or abettor. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who allows or permits. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A cudgel. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

See under 1st Bank, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ OE. calewe, calu, bald, AS. calu; akin to D. kaal, OHG. chalo, G. Kuhl; cf. L. calvus. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. [ 1913 Webster ]

An in the leafy summit, spied a nest,
Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Immature; boyish; “green”; as, a callow youth. [ 1913 Webster ]

I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play [ 1675 ]. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) [ Named from its note. ] A kind of duck. See Old squaw. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. having a lack of experience of life.
Syn. -- jejuneness. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Disallowed p. pr. & vb. n. Disallowing. ] [ Pref. dis- + allow: cf. OF. desalouer, desloer, to blame, dissuade. ] To refuse to allow; to deny the force or validity of; to disown and reject; as, the judge disallowed the executor's charge. [ 1913 Webster ]

To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God. 1 Pet. ii. 4. [ 1913 Webster ]

That the edicts of Cæsar we may at all times disallow, but the statutes of God for no reason we may reject. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ This verb was sometimes followed by of; as, “What follows, if we disallow of this?” Shak. See Allow.

Syn. -- To disapprove; prohibit; censure; reject. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not allowable; not to be suffered. Raleigh. -- Dis`al*low"a*ble*ness, n. [1913 Webster]

n. The act of disallowing; refusal to admit or permit; rejection.

Syn. -- Disapprobation; prohibition; condemnation; censure; rejection. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To make unholy; to profane. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

Nor can the unholiness of the priest dishallow the altar. T. Adams. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To plunge into, or roll in, flith; to wallow. [ 1913 Webster ]

So now all three one senseless lump remain,
Enwallowed in his own black bloody gore. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ AS. fealu, fealo, pale yellow or red; akin to D. vaal fallow, faded, OHG. falo, G. falb, fahl, Icel. fölr, and prob. to Lith. palvas, OSlav. plavŭ white, L. pallidus pale, pallere to be pale, Gr. polio`s gray, Skr. palita. Cf. Pale, Favel, a., Favor. ] 1. Pale red or pale yellow; as, a fallow deer or greyhound. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. [ Cf. Fallow, n. ] Left untilled or unsowed after plowing; uncultivated; as, fallow ground. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fallow chat,
Fallow finch (Zool.), a small European bird, the wheatear (Saxicola œnanthe). See Wheatear. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ So called from the fallow, or somewhat yellow, color of naked ground; or perh. akin to E. felly, n., cf. MHG. valgen to plow up, OHG. felga felly, harrow. ] 1. Plowed land. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Who . . . pricketh his blind horse over the fallows. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Land that has lain a year or more untilled or unseeded; land plowed without being sowed for the season. [ 1913 Webster ]

The plowing of fallows is a benefit to land. Mortimer. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The plowing or tilling of land, without sowing it for a season; as, summer fallow, properly conducted, has ever been found a sure method of destroying weeds. [ 1913 Webster ]

Be a complete summer fallow, land is rendered tender and mellow. The fallow gives it a better tilth than can be given by a fallow crop. Sinclair. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fallow crop, the crop taken from a green fallow. [ Eng. ] --
Green fallow, fallow whereby land is rendered mellow and clean from weeds, by cultivating some green crop, as turnips, potatoes, etc. [ Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Fallowed p. pr. & vb. n. Fallowing. ] [ From Fallow, n. ] To plow, harrow, and break up, as land, without seeding, for the purpose of destroying weeds and insects, and rendering it mellow; as, it is profitable to fallow cold, strong, clayey land. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ So called from its fallow or pale yellow color. ] (Zool.) A European species of deer (Cervus dama), much smaller than the red deer. In summer both sexes are spotted with white. It is common in England, where it is often domesticated in the parks. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who favors the practice of fallowing land. [ R. ] Sinclair. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A well or opening, through the successive floors of a warehouse or manufactory, through which goods are raised or lowered. [ U.S. ] Bartlett. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Cf. AS. āgelwan to stupefy. ] To fright or terrify. See Gally, v. t. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) A small horse of a breed raised at Galloway, Scotland; -- called also garran, and garron. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Ir. galloglach. Cf. Gillie. ] A heavy-armed foot soldier from Ireland and the Western Isles in the time of Edward &unr_; Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. sing.; pl. Gallowses it>or Gallows. [ OE. galwes, pl., AS. galga, gealga, gallows, cross; akin to D. galg gallows, OS. & OHG. galgo, G. galgen, Icel. gālgi, Sw. & Dan. galge, Goth. galga a cross. Etymologically and historically considered, gallows is a noun in the plural number, but it is used as a singular, and hence is preceded by a; as, a gallows. ] 1. A frame from which is suspended the rope with which criminals are executed by hanging, usually consisting of two upright posts and a crossbeam on the top; also, a like frame for suspending anything. [ 1913 Webster ]

So they hanged Haman on the gallows. Esther vii. 10. [ 1913 Webster ]

If I hang, I'll make a fat pair of gallows. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

O, there were desolation of gaolers and gallowses! Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A wretch who deserves the gallows. [ R. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Print.) The rest for the tympan when raised. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. pl. A pair of suspenders or braces. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Gallows bird, a person who deserves the gallows. [ Colloq. ] --
Gallows bitts (Naut.), one of two or more frames amidships on deck for supporting spare spars; -- called also gallows, gallows top, gallows frame, etc. --
Gallows frame. (a) The frame supporting the beam of an engine. (b) (Naut.) Gallows bitts. --
Gallows tree, or
Gallow tree, the gallows. [ 1913 Webster ]

At length him nailéd on a gallow tree. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. same as gallows.
Syn. -- gallows, gibbet, gallows tree, gallow tree. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Hallowed p. pr. & vb. n. Hallowing. ] [ OE. halowen, halwien, halgien, AS. hālgian, fr. hālig holy. See Holy. ] To make holy; to set apart for holy or religious use; to consecrate; to treat or keep as sacred; to reverence. “Hallowed be thy name.” Matt. vi. 9. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hallow the Sabbath day, to do no work therein. Jer. xvii. 24. [ 1913 Webster ]

His secret altar touched with hallowed fire. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

In a larger sense . . . we can not hallow this ground [ Gettysburg ]. A. Lincoln. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. belonging to or derived from or associated with a divine power; made holy. Opposite of unholy. [ Narrower terms: beatified, blessed ; blessed ; consecrated, sacred, sanctified ] Also See: consecrated, consecrate, sacred.
Syn. -- holy. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The evening preceding Allhallows or All Saints' Day (November 1); also the entire day, October 31. It is often marked by parties or celebrations, and sometimes by pranks played by young people. [ Scot. ] Burns.
Syn. -- Hallowe'en, Allhallows Eve. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ See Mass the eucharist. ] The feast of All Saints, or Allhallows. [ 1913 Webster ]

To speak puling, like a beggar at Hallowmas. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) The natural family Malvaceae, a dilleniid dicot family consisting of herbs and shrubs and some trees, and including the mallows, cotton, and okra. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ } n. [ OE. malwe, AS. mealwe, fr. L. malva, akin to Gr. mala`chh; cf. mala`ssein to soften, malako`s soft. Named either from its softening or relaxing properties, or from its soft downy leaves. Cf. Mauve, Malachite. ] (Bot.) A genus of plants (Malva) having mucilaginous qualities. See Malvaceous. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The flowers of the common mallow (Malva sylvestris) are used in medicine. The dwarf mallow (Malva rotundifolia) is a common weed, and its flattened, dick-shaped fruits are called cheeses by children. Tree mallow (Malva Mauritiana and Lavatera arborea), musk mallow (Malva moschata), rose mallow or hollyhock, and curled mallow (Malva crispa), are less commonly seen. [ 1913 Webster ]

Indian mallow. See Abutilon. --
Jew's mallow, a plant (Corchorus olitorius) used as a pot herb by the Jews of Egypt and Syria. --
Marsh mallow. See under Marsh. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) Any plant of the order Malvaceae. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. salwe, AS. sealh; akin to OHG. salaha, G. salweide, Icel. selja, L. salix, Ir. sail, saileach, Gael. seileach, W. helyg, Gr. "eli`kh.] 1. The willow; willow twigs. [Poetic] Tennyson. [1913 Webster]

And bend the pliant sallow to a shield. Fawkes. [1913 Webster]

The sallow knows the basketmaker's thumb. Emerson. [1913 Webster]

2. (Bot.) A name given to certain species of willow, especially those which do not have flexible shoots, as Salix caprea, Salix cinerea, etc. [1913 Webster]

Sallow thorn (Bot.), a European thorny shrub (Hippophae rhamnoides) much like an Elaeagnus. The yellow berries are sometimes used for making jelly, and the plant affords a yellow dye. [1913 Webster]

a. [ Compar. Sallower superl. Sallowest. ] [ AS. salu; akin to D. zaluw, OHG. salo, Icel. sölr yellow. ] Having a yellowish color; of a pale, sickly color, tinged with yellow; as, a sallow skin. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To tinge with sallowness. [ Poetic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

July breathes hot, sallows the crispy fields. Lowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Somewhat sallow. Dickens. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or condition of being sallow. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who has narrowly escaped the gallows for his crimes. [ Colloq. ] Dickens. [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Zool.) (a) The common tern. (b) The storm petrel. (c) The gannet. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Her.) See Cornish chough, under Chough. [ 1913 Webster ]