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Allotment :: Allotment (n.) The allowance of a specific amount of scrip or of a particular thing to a particular person.

Handicap :: Handicap (n.) An allowance of a certain amount of time or distance in starting, granted in a race to the competitor possessing inferior advantages; or an additional weight or other hindrance imposed upon the one possessing superior advantages, in order to equalize, as much as possible, the chances of success; as, the handicap was five seconds, or ten pounds, and the like..

Bouch :: Bouch (n.) An allowance of meat and drink for the tables of inferior officers or servants in a nobleman's palace or at court.

Allowance :: Allowance (n.) Acknowledgment.

Draff :: Draff (n.) An allowance or deduction made from the gross veight of goods.

Dole :: Dole (n.) That which is dealt out; a part, share, or portion also, a scanty share or allowance..

Skimp :: Skimp (v. t.) To make insufficient allowance for; to scant; to scrimp.

Draught :: Draught (n.) An allowance on weighable goods. [Eng.] See Draft, 4..

Dispart :: Dispart (v. t.) To make allowance for the dispart in (a gun), when taking aim..

Sufferance :: Sufferance (n.) Negative consent by not forbidding or hindering; toleration; permission; allowance; leave.

Correction :: Correction (n.) An allowance made for inaccuracy in an instrument; as, chronometer correction; compass correction..

Tare :: Tare (n.) Deficientcy in the weight or quantity of goods by reason of the weight of the cask, bag, or whatever contains the commodity, and is weighed with it; hence, the allowance or abatement of a certain weight or quantity which the seller makes to the buyer on account of the weight of such cask, bag, etc..

Leave :: Leave (n.) Liberty granted by which restraint or illegality is removed; permission; allowance; license.

Discount :: Discount (v. t.) A counting off or deduction made from a gross sum on any account whatever; an allowance upon an account, debt, demand, price asked, and the like; something taken or deducted..

Rigor :: Rigor (n.) Exactness without allowance, deviation, or indulgence; strictness; as, the rigor of criticism; to execute a law with rigor; to enforce moral duties with rigor; -- opposed to lenity..

Ration :: Ration (n.) A fixed daily allowance of provisions assigned to a soldier in the army, or a sailor in the navy, for his subsistence..

Allowedly :: Allowedly (adv.) By allowance; admittedly.

Pensioner :: Pensioner (n.) One of an honorable band of gentlemen who attend the sovereign of England on state occasions, and receive an annual pension, or allowance, of £150 and two horses..

Allowance :: Allowance (n.) A customary deduction from the gross weight of goods, different in different countries, such as tare and tret..

Equate :: Equate (v. t.) To make equal; to reduce to an average; to make such an allowance or correction in as will reduce to a common standard of comparison; to reduce to mean time or motion; as, to equate payments; to equate lines of railroad for grades or curves; equated distances..

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