[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

allow \allow"\, v. i.
   to admit; to concede; to make allowance or abatement.
   1913 webster

         allowing still for the different ways of making it.
                                                  --addison.
   1913 webster

   to allow of, to permit; to admit. --shak.
      1913 webster
see also:
to allow of 

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