Allow

·vt To Like; to be suited or pleased with.

II. Allow ·vt To Praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction.

III. Allow ·vi To Admit; to Concede; to make allowance or abatement.

IV. Allow ·vt To Sanction; to Invest; to Intrust.

V. Allow ·vt To grant license to; to Permit; to consent to; as, to allow a son to be absent.

VI. Allow ·vt To grant (something) as a deduction or an addition; ·esp. to abate or deduct; as, to allow a sum for leakage.

VII. Allow ·vt To grant, give, admit, accord, afford, or yield; to let one have; as, to allow a servant his liberty; to allow a free passage; to allow one day for rest.

VIII. Allow ·vt To own or acknowledge; to accept as true; to Concede; to accede to an opinion; as, to allow a right; to allow a claim; to allow the truth of a proposition.