1.Approval; approbation. (Obs.)
2.The act of allowing, granting, conceding, or admitting; authorization; permission; sanction; tolerance. "Without the king's will or the state's allowance."
3.Acknowledgment. "The censure of the which one must in your allowance o'erweigh a whole theater of others."
4.License; indulgence. (Obs.)
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. "I can give the boy a handsome allowance."
6.Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances; as, to make allowance for the inexperience of youth. "After making the largest allowance for fraud."
7.(com.) A customary deduction from the gross weight of goods, different in different countries, such as tare and tret.
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