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lowan
(encz) | lowan, n: |
lowan
(gcide) | lowan \lowan\ n.
The Australian moundbird (Leipoa ocellata); it incubates
eggs naturally in sandy mounds.
Syn: mallee fowl, mallee-fowl, leipoa, Leipoa ocellata.
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lowan
(wn) | lowan
n 1: Australian mound bird; incubates eggs naturally in sandy
mounds [syn: mallee fowl, leipoa, lowan, {Leipoa
ocellata}] |
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allowance
(mass) | allowance
- dovolenie, prídavok, príspevok, stravné |
allowance
(encz) | allowance,apanáž n: Zdeněk Brožallowance,dovolení n: Zdeněk Brožallowance,kapesné n: Zdeněk Brožallowance,odečet n: Zdeněk Brožallowance,odpočet n: Zdeněk Brožallowance,přídavek n: Zdeněk Brožallowance,příděl [eko.] RNDr. Pavel Piskačallowance,příspěvek n: Zdeněk Brožallowance,renta n: Zdeněk Brožallowance,srážka n: Zdeněk Brožallowance,stravné n: Zdeněk Brožallowance,svolení n: Zdeněk Brožallowance,tolerance n: Zdeněk Brožallowance,udělení n: Zdeněk Brožallowance,vyměřená částka n: Zdeněk Brož |
allowances
(encz) | allowances,dovolení n: pl. Zdeněk Brožallowances,přídavky n: pl. Zdeněk Brož |
child allowance
(encz) | child allowance,přídavek na dítě Zdeněk Brož |
child benefit allowance
(encz) | child benefit allowance, |
cost of living allowance
(encz) | cost of living allowance, |
cost-of-living allowance
(encz) | cost-of-living allowance, n: |
dependency allowance
(encz) | dependency allowance, |
depletion allowance
(encz) | depletion allowance, |
depreciation allowance
(encz) | depreciation allowance,amortizační částka n: [fin.] Ivan Masár |
family allowance
(encz) | family allowance,rodinný přídavek Zdeněk Brožfamily allowance,rodinný příplatek Zdeněk Brož |
family allowances
(encz) | family allowances,rodinné přídavky Mgr. Dita Gálová |
make allowance for something
(encz) | make allowance for something,vzít něco v úvahu [fráz.] Pino |
per night allowance
(encz) | per night allowance, |
personal allowance
(encz) | personal allowance, |
separation allowance
(encz) | separation allowance,odlučné adj: Zdeněk Brož |
spouse allowance
(encz) | spouse allowance, |
tax allowance (allowances against tax)
(encz) | tax allowance (allowances against tax),daňová úleva [eko.] RNDr. Pavel
Piskač |
tax allowances/charge reliefs
(encz) | tax allowances/charge reliefs,daňové úlevy/ úlevy z
poplatků [eko.] RNDr. Pavel Piskač |
travel allowance
(encz) | travel allowance,cestovné Zdeněk Brož |
A grain of allowance
(gcide) | Grain \Grain\ (gr[=a]n), n. [F. grain, L. granum, grain, seed,
small kernel, small particle. See Corn, and cf. Garner,
n., Garnet, Gram the chick-pea, Granule, Kernel.]
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1. A single small hard seed; a kernel, especially of those
plants, like wheat, whose seeds are used for food.
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2. The fruit of certain grasses which furnish the chief food
of man, as corn, wheat, rye, oats, etc., or the plants
themselves; -- used collectively.
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Storehouses crammed with grain. --Shak.
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3. Any small, hard particle, as of sand, sugar, salt, etc.;
hence, any minute portion or particle; as, a grain of
gunpowder, of pollen, of starch, of sense, of wit, etc.
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I . . . with a grain of manhood well resolved.
--Milton.
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4. The unit of the English system of weights; -- so called
because considered equal to the average of grains taken
from the middle of the ears of wheat. 7,000 grains
constitute the pound avoirdupois, and 5,760 grains the
pound troy. A grain is equal to .0648 gram. See Gram.
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5. A reddish dye made from the coccus insect, or kermes;
hence, a red color of any tint or hue, as crimson,
scarlet, etc.; sometimes used by the poets as equivalent
to Tyrian purple.
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All in a robe of darkest grain. --Milton.
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Doing as the dyers do, who, having first dipped
their silks in colors of less value, then give' them
the last tincture of crimson in grain. --Quoted by
Coleridge,
preface to
Aids to
Reflection.
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6. The composite particles of any substance; that arrangement
of the particles of any body which determines its
comparative roughness or hardness; texture; as, marble,
sugar, sandstone, etc., of fine grain.
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Hard box, and linden of a softer grain. --Dryden.
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7. The direction, arrangement, or appearance of the fibers in
wood, or of the strata in stone, slate, etc.
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Knots, by the conflux of meeting sap,
Infect the sound pine and divert his grain
Tortive and errant from his course of growth.
--Shak.
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8. The fiber which forms the substance of wood or of any
fibrous material.
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9. The hair side of a piece of leather, or the marking on
that side. --Knight.
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10. pl. The remains of grain, etc., after brewing or
distillation; hence, any residuum. Also called draff.
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11. (Bot.) A rounded prominence on the back of a sepal, as in
the common dock. See Grained, a., 4.
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12. Temper; natural disposition; inclination. [Obs.]
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Brothers . . . not united in grain. --Hayward.
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13. A sort of spice, the grain of paradise. [Obs.]
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He cheweth grain and licorice,
To smellen sweet. --Chaucer.
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Against the grain, against or across the direction of the
fibers; hence, against one's wishes or tastes;
unwillingly; unpleasantly; reluctantly; with difficulty.
--Swift. --Saintsbury.
A grain of allowance, a slight indulgence or latitude a
small allowance.
Grain binder, an attachment to a harvester for binding the
grain into sheaves.
Grain colors, dyes made from the coccus or kermes insect.
Grain leather.
(a) Dressed horse hides.
(b) Goat, seal, and other skins blacked on the grain side
for women's shoes, etc.
Grain moth (Zool.), one of several small moths, of the
family Tineid[ae] (as Tinea granella and {Butalis
cerealella}), whose larv[ae] devour grain in storehouses.
Grain side (Leather), the side of a skin or hide from which
the hair has been removed; -- opposed to flesh side.
Grains of paradise, the seeds of a species of amomum.
grain tin, crystalline tin ore metallic tin smelted with
charcoal.
Grain weevil (Zool.), a small red weevil ({Sitophilus
granarius}), which destroys stored wheat and other grain,
by eating out the interior.
Grain worm (Zool.), the larva of the grain moth. See {grain
moth}, above.
In grain, of a fast color; deeply seated; fixed; innate;
genuine. "Anguish in grain." --Herbert.
To dye in grain, to dye of a fast color by means of the
coccus or kermes grain [see Grain, n., 5]; hence, to dye
firmly; also, to dye in the wool, or in the raw material.
See under Dye.
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The red roses flush up in her cheeks . . .
Likce crimson dyed in grain. --Spenser.
To go against the grain of (a person), to be repugnant to;
to vex, irritate, mortify, or trouble.
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allowance
(gcide) | Tolerance \Tol"er*ance\, n. [L. tolerantia: cf. F.
tol['e]rance.]
1. The power or capacity of enduring; the act of enduring;
endurance.
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Diogenes, one frosty morning, came into the market
place, shaking, to show his tolerance. --Bacon.
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2. The endurance of the presence or actions of objectionable
persons, or of the expression of offensive opinions;
toleration.
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3. (Med.) The power possessed or acquired by some persons of
bearing doses of medicine which in ordinary cases would
prove injurious or fatal.
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4. (Forestry) Capability of growth in more or less shade.
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5. the allowed amount of variation from the standard or from
exact conformity to the specified dimensions, weight,
hardness, voltage etc., in various mechanical or
electrical devices or operations; -- caklled also
allowance specif.: (Coinage) The amount which coins,
either singly or in lots, are legally allowed to vary
above or below the standard of weight or fineness.
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6. (Biochemistry) the capacity to resist the deleterious
action of a chemical agent normally harmful to the
organism; as, the acquired tolerance of bacteria to
anitbiotics.
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7. (Immunology) the acquired inability to respond with an
immune reaction to an antigen to which the organism
normally responds; -- called also immunotolerance,
immunological tolerance, or immune tolerance. Such
tolerance may be induced by exposing an animal to the
antigen at a very early stage of life, prior to maturation
of the immune system, or, in adults, by exposing the
animal to repeated low doses of a weak protein antigen
(low-zone tolerance), or to a large amount of an antigen
(high-zone tolerance).
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Tolerance of the mint. (Coinage) Same as {Remedy of the
mint}. See under Remedy.
[1913 Webster]Allowance \Al*low"ance\, n. [OF. alouance.]
1. Approval; approbation. [Obs.] --Crabbe.
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2. The act of allowing, granting, conceding, or admitting;
authorization; permission; sanction; tolerance.
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Without the king's will or the state's allowance.
--Shak.
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3. Acknowledgment.
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The censure of the which one must in your allowance
o'erweigh a whole theater of others. --Shak.
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4. License; indulgence. [Obs.] --Locke.
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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.
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I can give the boy a handsome allowance.
--Thackeray.
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6. Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of
mitigating circumstances; as, to make allowance for the
inexperience of youth.
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After making the largest allowance for fraud.
--Macaulay.
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7. (com.) A customary deduction from the gross weight of
goods, different in different countries, such as tare and
tret.
[1913 Webster]Allowance \Al*low"ance\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Allowancing.]
[See Allowance, n.]
To put upon a fixed allowance (esp. of provisions and drink);
to supply in a fixed and limited quantity; as, the captain
was obliged to allowance his crew; our provisions were
allowanced.
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Allowance
(gcide) | Tolerance \Tol"er*ance\, n. [L. tolerantia: cf. F.
tol['e]rance.]
1. The power or capacity of enduring; the act of enduring;
endurance.
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Diogenes, one frosty morning, came into the market
place, shaking, to show his tolerance. --Bacon.
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2. The endurance of the presence or actions of objectionable
persons, or of the expression of offensive opinions;
toleration.
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3. (Med.) The power possessed or acquired by some persons of
bearing doses of medicine which in ordinary cases would
prove injurious or fatal.
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4. (Forestry) Capability of growth in more or less shade.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
5. the allowed amount of variation from the standard or from
exact conformity to the specified dimensions, weight,
hardness, voltage etc., in various mechanical or
electrical devices or operations; -- caklled also
allowance specif.: (Coinage) The amount which coins,
either singly or in lots, are legally allowed to vary
above or below the standard of weight or fineness.
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6. (Biochemistry) the capacity to resist the deleterious
action of a chemical agent normally harmful to the
organism; as, the acquired tolerance of bacteria to
anitbiotics.
[PJC]
7. (Immunology) the acquired inability to respond with an
immune reaction to an antigen to which the organism
normally responds; -- called also immunotolerance,
immunological tolerance, or immune tolerance. Such
tolerance may be induced by exposing an animal to the
antigen at a very early stage of life, prior to maturation
of the immune system, or, in adults, by exposing the
animal to repeated low doses of a weak protein antigen
(low-zone tolerance), or to a large amount of an antigen
(high-zone tolerance).
[PJC]
Tolerance of the mint. (Coinage) Same as {Remedy of the
mint}. See under Remedy.
[1913 Webster]Allowance \Al*low"ance\, n. [OF. alouance.]
1. Approval; approbation. [Obs.] --Crabbe.
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2. The act of allowing, granting, conceding, or admitting;
authorization; permission; sanction; tolerance.
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Without the king's will or the state's allowance.
--Shak.
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3. Acknowledgment.
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The censure of the which one must in your allowance
o'erweigh a whole theater of others. --Shak.
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4. License; indulgence. [Obs.] --Locke.
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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.
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I can give the boy a handsome allowance.
--Thackeray.
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6. Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of
mitigating circumstances; as, to make allowance for the
inexperience of youth.
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After making the largest allowance for fraud.
--Macaulay.
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7. (com.) A customary deduction from the gross weight of
goods, different in different countries, such as tare and
tret.
[1913 Webster]Allowance \Al*low"ance\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Allowancing.]
[See Allowance, n.]
To put upon a fixed allowance (esp. of provisions and drink);
to supply in a fixed and limited quantity; as, the captain
was obliged to allowance his crew; our provisions were
allowanced.
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Allowancing
(gcide) | Allowance \Al*low"ance\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Allowancing.]
[See Allowance, n.]
To put upon a fixed allowance (esp. of provisions and drink);
to supply in a fixed and limited quantity; as, the captain
was obliged to allowance his crew; our provisions were
allowanced.
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Disallowance
(gcide) | Disallowance \Dis`al*low"ance\, n.
The act of disallowing; refusal to admit or permit;
rejection.
Syn: Disapprobation; prohibition; condemnation; censure;
rejection.
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allowance
(wn) | allowance
n 1: an amount allowed or granted (as during a given period);
"travel allowance"; "my weekly allowance of two eggs"; "a
child's allowance should not be too generous"
2: a sum granted as reimbursement for expenses
3: an amount added or deducted on the basis of qualifying
circumstances; "an allowance for profit" [syn: allowance,
adjustment]
4: a permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move
within limits [syn: allowance, leeway, margin,
tolerance]
5: a reserve fund created by a charge against profits in order
to provide for changes in the value of a company's assets
[syn: valuation reserve, valuation account, allowance,
allowance account]
6: the act of allowing; "He objected to the allowance of smoking
in the dining room"
v 1: put on a fixed allowance, as of food |
allowance account
(wn) | allowance account
n 1: a reserve fund created by a charge against profits in order
to provide for changes in the value of a company's assets
[syn: valuation reserve, valuation account,
allowance, allowance account] |
cost-of-living allowance
(wn) | cost-of-living allowance
n 1: an allowance for changes in the consumer price index |
depreciation allowance
(wn) | depreciation allowance
n 1: an allowance for loss due to depreciation |
travel allowance
(wn) | travel allowance
n 1: a sum allowed for travel [syn: travel allowance, {travel
reimbursement}] |
ALLOWANCE TO A PRISONER
(bouvier) | ALLOWANCE TO A PRISONER. By the laws of, it is believed, all the states,
when a poor debtor is in arrest in a civil suit, the plaintiff is compelled
to pay an allowance regulated by law, for his maintenance and support, and
in default of such payment at the time required, the prisoner is discharged.
Notice must be given to the plaintiff before the defendant can be
discharged.
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