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Salt :: Salt (n.) Fig.: That which preserves from corruption or error; that which purifies; a corrective; an antiseptic; also, an allowance or deduction; as, his statements must be taken with a grain of salt..

Ration :: Ration (n.) Hence, a certain portion or fixed amount dealt out; an allowance; an allotment..

Appointment :: Appointment (n.) An allowance to a person, esp. to a public officer; a perquisite; -- properly only in the plural..

Allowance :: Allowance (n.) Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances; as, to make allowance for the inexperience of youth..

Leakage :: Leakage (n.) An allowance of a certain rate per cent for the leaking of casks, or waste of liquors by leaking..

Diet :: Diet (n.) A course of food selected with reference to a particular state of health; prescribed allowance of food; regimen prescribed.

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

Shorten :: Shorten (a.) To reduce or diminish in amount, quantity, or extent; to lessen; to abridge; to curtail; to contract; as, to shorten work, an allowance of food, etc..

Allowance :: Allowance (n.) Approval; approbation.

Viaticum :: Viaticum (n.) An allowance for traveling expenses made to those who were sent into the provinces to exercise any office or perform any service.

Disallowance :: Disallowance (n.) The act of disallowing; refusal to admit or permit; rejection.

Rate :: Rate (n.) Established portion or measure; fixed allowance.

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

Commutation :: Commutation (n.) A substitution, as of a less thing for a greater, esp. a substitution of one form of payment for another, or one payment for many, or a specific sum of money for conditional payments or allowances; as, commutation of tithes; commutation of fares; commutation of copyright; commutation of rations..

Toleration :: Toleration (n.) Specifically, the allowance of religious opinions and modes of worship in a state when contrary to, or different from, those of the established church or belief..

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

Allocation :: Allocation (n.) The admission of an item in an account, or an allowance made upon an account; -- a term used in the English exchequer..

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

Allowance :: Allowance (n.) License; indulgence.

Feed :: Feed (n.) An allowance of provender given to a horse, cow, etc.; a meal; as, a feed of corn or oats..

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