Allow

1. v. i. To admit; to concede; to make allowance or abatement.
2. v. t. To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction.
3. v. t. To like; to be suited or pleased with.
4. v. t. To sanction; to invest; to intrust.
5. v. t. 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.
6. v. t. 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.
7. v. t. To grant (something) as a deduction or an addition; esp. to abate or deduct; as, to allow a sum for leakage.
8. v. t. To grant license to; to permit; to consent to; as, to allow a son to be absent.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.