2. All Saints' Day, November 1st. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Allowing still for the different ways of making it. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

To allow of, to permit; to admit. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ye allow the deeds of your fathers. Luke xi. 48. [ 1913 Webster ]

We commend his pains, condemn his pride, allow his life, approve his learning. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To like; to be suited or pleased with. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

How allow you the model of these clothes? Massinger. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To sanction; to invest; to intrust. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Thou shalt be . . . allowed with absolute power. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

He was allowed about three hundred pounds a year. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

I allow, with Mrs. Grundy and most moralists, that Miss Newcome's conduct . . . was highly reprehensible. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. To grant (something) as a deduction or an addition; esp. to abate or deduct; as, to allow a sum for leakage. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. To grant license to; to permit; to consent to; as, to allow a son to be absent. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To allot; assign; bestow; concede; admit; permit; suffer; tolerate. See Permit. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Proper to be, or capable of being, allowed; permissible; admissible; not forbidden; not unlawful or improper; as, a certain degree of freedom is allowable among friends. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of allowing, granting, conceding, or admitting; authorization; permission; sanction; tolerance. [ 1913 Webster ]

Without the king's will or the state's allowance. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Acknowledgment. [ 1913 Webster ]

The censure of the which one must in your allowance o'erweigh a whole theater of others. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. License; indulgence. [ Obs. ] Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

I can give the boy a handsome allowance. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances; as, to make allowance for the inexperience of youth. [ 1913 Webster ]

After making the largest allowance for fraud. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. (com.) A customary deduction from the gross weight of goods, different in different countries, such as tare and tret. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who allows or permits. [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. [ 1913 Webster ]

An in the leafy summit, spied a nest,
Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Immature; boyish; “green”; as, a callow youth. [ 1913 Webster ]

I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play [ 1675 ]. [ 1913 Webster ]

To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God. 1 Pet. ii. 4. [ 1913 Webster ]

That the edicts of Cæsar we may at all times disallow, but the statutes of God for no reason we may reject. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ This verb was sometimes followed by of; as, “What follows, if we disallow of this?” Shak. See Allow.

Syn. -- To disapprove; prohibit; censure; reject. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Disapprobation; prohibition; condemnation; censure; rejection. [ 1913 Webster ]

Nor can the unholiness of the priest dishallow the altar. T. Adams. [ 1913 Webster ]

So now all three one senseless lump remain,
Enwallowed in his own black bloody gore. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. [ Cf. Fallow, n. ] Left untilled or unsowed after plowing; uncultivated; as, fallow ground. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fallow chat,
Fallow finch (Zool.), a small European bird, the wheatear (Saxicola œnanthe). See Wheatear. [ 1913 Webster ]

Who . . . pricketh his blind horse over the fallows. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Land that has lain a year or more untilled or unseeded; land plowed without being sowed for the season. [ 1913 Webster ]

The plowing of fallows is a benefit to land. Mortimer. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The plowing or tilling of land, without sowing it for a season; as, summer fallow, properly conducted, has ever been found a sure method of destroying weeds. [ 1913 Webster ]

Be a complete summer fallow, land is rendered tender and mellow. The fallow gives it a better tilth than can be given by a fallow crop. Sinclair. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fallow crop, the crop taken from a green fallow. [ Eng. ] --
Green fallow, fallow whereby land is rendered mellow and clean from weeds, by cultivating some green crop, as turnips, potatoes, etc. [ Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

So they hanged Haman on the gallows. Esther vii. 10. [ 1913 Webster ]

If I hang, I'll make a fat pair of gallows. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

O, there were desolation of gaolers and gallowses! Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A wretch who deserves the gallows. [ R. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Print.) The rest for the tympan when raised. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. pl. A pair of suspenders or braces. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Gallows bird, a person who deserves the gallows. [ Colloq. ] --
Gallows bitts (Naut.), one of two or more frames amidships on deck for supporting spare spars; -- called also gallows, gallows top, gallows frame, etc. --
Gallows frame. (a) The frame supporting the beam of an engine. (b) (Naut.) Gallows bitts. --
Gallows tree, or
Gallow tree, the gallows. [ 1913 Webster ]

At length him nailéd on a gallow tree. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hallow the Sabbath day, to do no work therein. Jer. xvii. 24. [ 1913 Webster ]

His secret altar touched with hallowed fire. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

In a larger sense . . . we can not hallow this ground [ Gettysburg ]. A. Lincoln. [ 1913 Webster ]

To speak puling, like a beggar at Hallowmas. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The flowers of the common mallow (Malva sylvestris) are used in medicine. The dwarf mallow (Malva rotundifolia) is a common weed, and its flattened, dick-shaped fruits are called cheeses by children. Tree mallow (Malva Mauritiana and Lavatera arborea), musk mallow (Malva moschata), rose mallow or hollyhock, and curled mallow (Malva crispa), are less commonly seen. [ 1913 Webster ]

Indian mallow. See Abutilon. --
Jew's mallow, a plant (Corchorus olitorius) used as a pot herb by the Jews of Egypt and Syria. --
Marsh mallow. See under Marsh. [ 1913 Webster ]

And bend the pliant sallow to a shield. Fawkes. [1913 Webster]

The sallow knows the basketmaker's thumb. Emerson. [1913 Webster]

2. (Bot.) A name given to certain species of willow, especially those which do not have flexible shoots, as Salix caprea, Salix cinerea, etc. [1913 Webster]

Sallow thorn (Bot.), a European thorny shrub (Hippophae rhamnoides) much like an Elaeagnus. The yellow berries are sometimes used for making jelly, and the plant affords a yellow dye. [1913 Webster]

July breathes hot, sallows the crispy fields. Lowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Her.) See Cornish chough, under Chough. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Not deep in tone. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The sound perfecter and not so shallow and jarring. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Not intellectually deep; not profound; not penetrating deeply; simple; not wise or knowing; ignorant; superficial; as, a shallow mind; shallow learning. [ 1913 Webster ]

The king was neither so shallow, nor so ill advertised, as not to perceive the intention of the French king. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

Deep versed in books, and shallow in himself. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]