v. t.
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 ]
How allow you the model of these clothes? Massinger. [ 1913 Webster ]
Thou shalt be . . . allowed with absolute power. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
He was allowed about three hundred pounds a year. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]
I allow, with Mrs. Grundy and most moralists, that Miss Newcome's conduct . . . was highly reprehensible. Thackeray. [ 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,
a. [ F. allouable. ]
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. ]
Without the king's will or the state's allowance. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
The censure of the which one must in your allowance o'erweigh a whole theater of others. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
I can give the boy a handsome allowance. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]
After making the largest allowance for fraud. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t.
pos>adv. By allowance; admittedly. Shenstone. [ 1913 Webster ]
n.