v. t. | 1. | To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction. | |||
2. | To like; to be suited or pleased with. | ||||
3. | To sanction; to invest; to intrust. | ||||
4. | To grant, give, admit, accord, afford, or yield; to let one have; | ||||
5. | To own or acknowledge; to accept as true; to concede; to accede to an opinion; | ||||
6. | To grant (something) as a deduction or an addition; esp. to abate or deduct; | ||||
7. | To grant license to; to permit; to consent to; | ||||
v. i. | 1. | To admit; to concede; to make allowance or abatement.
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TO ALLOW, practice. To approve; to grant; as to allow a writ of error, is to approve of it, to grant it. Vide Allocatur. To allow an amount is to admit or approve of it.
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