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

Exhibition :: Exhibition (n.) Sustenance; maintenance; allowance, esp. for meat and drink; pension. Specifically: (Eng. Univ.) Private benefaction for the maintenance of scholars..

Size :: Size (n.) A settled quantity or allowance. See Assize.

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

Quarterage :: Quarterage (n.) A quarterly allowance.

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..

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..

Permittance :: Permittance (n.) The act of permitting; allowance; permission; leave.

Portionist :: Portionist (n.) A scholar at Merton College, Oxford, who has a certain academical allowance or portion; -- corrupted into postmaster..

Grant :: Grant (v. t.) The act of granting; a bestowing or conferring; concession; allowance; permission.

Genteel :: Genteel (a.) Suited to the position of lady or a gentleman; as, to live in a genteel allowance..

Tommy :: Tommy (n.) Bread, -- generally a penny roll; the supply of food carried by workmen as their daily allowance..

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

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..

Allowance :: Allowance (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..

Allow :: Allow (v. i.) To admit; to concede; to make allowance or abatement.

Dietary :: Dietary (n.) A rule of diet; a fixed allowance of food, as in workhouse, prison, etc..

Alimony :: Alimony (n.) An allowance made to a wife out of her husband's estate or income for her support, upon her divorce or legal separation from him, or during a suit for the same..

Commission :: Commission (n.) The brokerage or allowance made to a factor or agent for transacting business for another; as, a commission of ten per cent on sales. See Del credere..

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

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