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

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..

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

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

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..

Warrant :: Warrant (n.) Right; legality; allowance.

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

Allowance :: Allowance (n.) The act of allowing, granting, conceding, or admitting; authorization; permission; sanction; tolerance..

Tret :: Tret (n.) An allowance to purchasers, for waste or refuse matter, of four pounds on every 104 pounds of suttle weight, or weight after the tare deducted..

Handicap :: Handicap (n.) A race, for horses or men, or any contest of agility, strength, or skill, in which there is an allowance of time, distance, weight, or other advantage, to equalize the chances of the competitors..

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..

Demurrage :: Demurrage (n.) The allowance made to the master or owner of the ship for such delay or detention.

Toleration :: Toleration (n.) The act of tolerating; the allowance of that which is not wholly approved.

Scant :: Scant (superl.) Not full, large, or plentiful; scarcely sufficient; less than is wanted for the purpose; scanty; meager; not enough; as, a scant allowance of provisions or water; a scant pattern of cloth for a garment..

Sergeant :: Sergeant (n.) Formerly, in England, an officer nearly answering to the more modern bailiff of the hundred; also, an officer whose duty was to attend on the king, and on the lord high steward in court, to arrest traitors and other offenders. He is now called sergeant-at-arms, and two of these officers, by allowance of the sovereign, attend on the houses of Parliament (one for each house) to execute their commands, and another attends the Court Chancery..

Neat :: Neat (a.) With all deductions or allowances made; net. [In this sense usually written net. See Net, a., 3.].

Allocatur :: Allocatur (n.) Allowed. The word allocatur expresses the allowance of a proceeding, writ, order, etc., by a court, judge, or judicial officer..

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

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

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

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