allow (the foll. are the less common S. uses)
1.
to
approve, sanction, license Tw.N. I. ii.
57,
I. v. 100
“an allowed
fool,”
Tim. V. i. 167
“Allow'd with absolute
power,”
Lr. II. iv. 194.
2.
to grant, admit 2H4 I. iii. 5, Lucr. 1845; also with “of”
Tw.N. IV. ii. 64
“ere I will of thy
wits.”
3.
to assign as one's
due
Mer.V. IV. i. 304
“The law allows
it”
[the pound of flesh].
4.
refl. to lend itself
Lr. III. vii. 105
“his roguish madness
Allows itself to any thing.”
