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allowing
(encz) | allowing,dovolování v: |
allowing
(encz) | allowing,dovolující adj: Zdeněk Brož |
Allowing
(gcide) | Allow \Al*low"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Allowed; p. pr. & vb. n.
Allowing.] [OE. alouen, OF. alouer, aloer, aluer, F.
allouer, fr. LL. allocare to admit as proved, to place, use;
confused with OF. aloer, fr. L. allaudare to extol; ad +
laudare to praise. See Local, and cf. Allocate, Laud.]
1. To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction. [Obs. or
Archaic]
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Ye allow the deeds of your fathers. --Luke xi. 48.
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We commend his pains, condemn his pride, allow his
life, approve his learning. --Fuller.
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2. To like; to be suited or pleased with. [Obs.]
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How allow you the model of these clothes?
--Massinger.
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3. To sanction; to invest; to intrust. [Obs.]
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Thou shalt be . . . allowed with absolute power.
--Shak.
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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.
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He was allowed about three hundred pounds a year.
--Macaulay.
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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.
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I allow, with Mrs. Grundy and most moralists, that
Miss Newcome's conduct . . . was highly
reprehensible. --Thackeray.
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6. To grant (something) as a deduction or an addition; esp.
to abate or deduct; as, to allow a sum for leakage.
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7. To grant license to; to permit; to consent to; as, to
allow a son to be absent.
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Syn: To allot; assign; bestow; concede; admit; permit;
suffer; tolerate. See Permit.
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allowing
(encz) | allowing,dovolování v: allowing,dovolující adj: Zdeněk Brož |
disallowing
(encz) | disallowing,zamítající adj: Zdeněk Brož |
swallowing
(encz) | swallowing,polykání n: Zdeněk Brož |
Disallowing
(gcide) | Disallow \Dis`al*low"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disallowed; p. pr.
& vb. n. Disallowing.] [Pref. dis- + allow: cf. OF.
desalouer, desloer, to blame, dissuade.]
To refuse to allow; to deny the force or validity of; to
disown and reject; as, the judge disallowed the executor's
charge.
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To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed
indeed of men, but chosen of God. --1 Pet. ii.
4.
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That the edicts of C[ae]sar we may at all times
disallow, but the statutes of God for no reason we may
reject. --Milton.
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Note: This verb was sometimes followed by of; as, "What
follows, if we disallow of this?" --Shak. See Allow.
Syn: To disapprove; prohibit; censure; reject.
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Fallowing
(gcide) | Fallow \Fal"low\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fallowed; p. pr. & vb.
n. Fallowing.] [From Fallow, n.]
To plow, harrow, and break up, as land, without seeding, for
the purpose of destroying weeds and insects, and rendering it
mellow; as, it is profitable to fallow cold, strong, clayey
land.
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Hallowing
(gcide) | Hallow \Hal"low\ (h[a^]l"l[-o]), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Hallowed(-l[-o]d); p. pr. & vb. n. Hallowing.] [OE.
halowen, halwien, halgien, AS. h[=a]lgian, fr. h[=a]lig holy.
See Holy.]
To make holy; to set apart for holy or religious use; to
consecrate; to treat or keep as sacred; to reverence.
"Hallowed be thy name." --Matt. vi. 9.
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Hallow the Sabbath day, to do no work therein. --Jer.
xvii. 24.
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His secret altar touched with hallowed fire. --Milton.
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In a larger sense . . . we can not hallow this ground
[Gettysburg]. --A. Lincoln.
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Swallowing
(gcide) | Swallow \Swal"low\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Swallowed; p. pr. &
vb. n. Swallowing.] [OE. swolewen, swolwen, swolhen, AS.
swelgan; akin to D. zwelgen, OHG. swelahan, swelgan, G.
schwelgen to feast, to revel, Icel. svelgia to swallow, SW.
sv[aum]lja, Dan. svaelge. Cf. Groundsel a plant.]
1. To take into the stomach; to receive through the gullet,
or esophagus, into the stomach; as, to swallow food or
drink.
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As if I had swallowed snowballs for pills. --Shak.
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2. To draw into an abyss or gulf; to ingulf; to absorb --
usually followed by up. --Milton.
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The earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up,
and their houses. --Num. xvi.
32.
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3. To receive or embrace, as opinions or belief, without
examination or scruple; to receive implicitly.
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Though that story . . . be not so readily swallowed.
--Sir T.
Browne.
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4. To engross; to appropriate; -- usually with up.
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Homer excels . . . in this, that he swallowed up the
honor of those who succeeded him. --Pope.
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5. To occupy; to take up; to employ.
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The necessary provision of the life swallows the
greatest part of their time. --Locke.
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6. To seize and waste; to exhaust; to consume.
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Corruption swallowed what the liberal hand
Of bounty scattered. --Thomson.
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7. To retract; to recant; as, to swallow one's opinions.
"Swallowed his vows whole." --Shak.
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8. To put up with; to bear patiently or without retaliation;
as, to swallow an affront or insult.
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Syn: To absorb; imbibe; ingulf; engross; consume. See
Absorb.
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Tallowing
(gcide) | Tallow \Tal"low\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tallowed; p. pr. & vb.
n. Tallowing.]
1. To grease or smear with tallow.
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2. To cause to have a large quantity of tallow; to fatten;
as, tallow sheep.
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The act, or art, of causing animals to produce tallow; also,
the property in animals of producing tallow.
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Trifallowing
(gcide) | Trifallow \Tri"fal`low\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Trifallowed; p.
pr. & vb. n. Trifallowing.] [Pref. tri- + fallow. Cf.
Thryfallow.]
To plow the third time before sowing, as land. --Mortimer.
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Twifallowing
(gcide) | Twifallow \Twi"fal`low\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Twifallowed; p.
pr. & vb. n. Twifallowing.] [AS. twi- (see Twice) two +
fallow.]
To plow, or fallow, a second time (land that has been once
fallowed).
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Wallowing
(gcide) | Wallow \Wal"low\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Wallowed; p. pr. & vb.
n. Wallowing.] [OE. walwen, AS. wealwian; akin to Goth.
walwjan (in comp.) to roll, L. volvere; cf. Skr. val to turn.
[root]147. Cf. Voluble Well, n.]
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1. To roll one's self about, as in mire; to tumble and roll
about; to move lazily or heavily in any medium; to
flounder; as, swine wallow in the mire.
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I may wallow in the lily beds. --Shak.
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2. To live in filth or gross vice; to disport one's self in a
beastly and unworthy manner.
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God sees a man wallowing in his native impurity.
--South.
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3. To wither; to fade. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
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