Allowance
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): (n.) Approval; approbation.
(2): (n.) License; indulgence.
(3): (n.) Acknowledgment.
(4): (n.) Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances; as, to make allowance for the inexperience of youth.
(5): (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.
(6): (n.) The act of allowing, granting, conceding, or admitting; authorization; permission; sanction; tolerance.
(7): (n.) 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.
(8): (n.) A customary deduction from the gross weight of goods, different in different countries, such as tare and tret.
King James Dictionary [2]
Allow'Ance, n.
1. The act of allowing or admitting. 2. Permission license approbation sanction usually slight approbation. 3. Admission assent to a fact or state of things a granting. 4. Freedom from restraint indulgence. 5. That which is allowed a portion appointed a stated quantity, as of food or drink hence, in seamen's language, a limited quantity of meat and drink, when provisions fall short. 6. Abatement deduction as, to make an allowance for the inexperience of youth. 7. Established character reputation as, a pilot of approved allowance. Obs.
Allow'Ance, To put upon allowance to restrain or limit to a certain quantity of provisions or drink.
Distress compelled the captain of the ship to allowance his crew.
