2. The act of allowing, granting, conceding, or admitting;
authorization; permission; sanction; tolerance.
Without the king's will or the state's allowance.
--Shak.
3. Acknowledgment.
The censure of the which one must in your allowance
o'erweigh a whole theater of others. --Shak.
4. License; indulgence. [Obs.] --Locke.
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.
--Thackeray.
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.
--Macaulay.
7. (com.) A customary deduction from the gross weight of
goods, different in different countries, such as tare and
tret.