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Allowance: Definition and part of speech

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Allowance

  1. n. A customary deduction from the gross weight of goods, different in different countries, such as tare and tret.
  2. n. Approval; approbation.
  3. n. The act of allowing, granting, conceding, or admitting; authorization; permission; sanction; tolerance.
  4. n. Acknowledgment.
  5. n. License; indulgence.
  6. n. That which is allowed; a share or portion allotted or granted; a sum granted as a reimbursement, a bounty, or as appropriate for any purpose; a stated quantity, as of food or drink; hence, a limited quantity of meat and drink, when provisions fall short.
  7. n. Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances; as, to make allowance for the inexperience of youth.

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.

Alloxan: Definition and part of speech

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Alloxan

  1. n. An oxidation product of uric acid. It is of a pale reddish color, readily soluble in water or alcohol.

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.

Alloxanic: Definition and part of speech

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Alloxanic

  1. a. Of or pertaining to alloxan; — applied to an acid obtained by the action of soluble alkalies on alloxan.

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.

Alloy: Definition and part of speech

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Alloy

  1. v. t. Admixture of anything which lessens the value or detracts from; as, no happiness is without alloy.
  2. v. t. Any combination or compound of metals fused together; a mixture of metals; for example, brass, which is an alloy of copper and zinc. But when mercury is one of the metals, the compound is called an amalgam.
  3. v. t. The quality, or comparative purity, of gold or silver; fineness.
  4. v. t. A baser metal mixed with a finer.

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.