The Collaborative International Dictionary
Allow \Al*low"\, v. i. To admit; to concede; to make allowance or abatement.
Allowing still for the different ways of making it.
--Addison.
To allow of, to permit; to admit.
--Shak.
Usage examples of "to allow of".
But the subterranean sounds were too perceptible to allow of the supposition that it was of any great thickness.
While the claimant of the girl was pressing Icilius to enter his plea and name his sureties, and Icilius kept asserting that this very thing was being arranged, purposely spinning out the time to allow of his messengers getting first to the camp, the crowd everywhere held up their hands to show that every one of them was ready to be security for him.
The two guides were then ordered so to regulate the length of each day's march as to allow of an attack being made on Pythium in the fourth watch of the third day.
Even then no chance of fighting was offered him, and as foraging was by no means safe while the camps were in such close proximity since Philip's cavalry would attack his men when they were dispersed amongst the fields, he shifted his camp to a place called Ottolobum, about eight miles off, to allow of his foraging more safely owing to the greater distance.