The food, provisions, or clothing dispensed to or supplied for retainers, servants, or others; an allowance or ration of food served out. Now histo…

A fixed sum of money provided for expenses; spec. a regular fixed sum given by a parent, guardian, etc., to a person who has no other significant…

An allotted amount or measure; a prescribed or customary portion; an allowance. Now rare or Obsolete (except as in 4b). Cf. sense 7.

Customary fare; a regular daily meal or allowance of food; (hence, by extension) a fixed portion, an allowance of anything. Obsolete.

A quantity or portion of something, esp. as granted or meted out to a person or thing.

A measured portion; a fixed allowance; = dimense, n.

Probably: an allotment, an apportioning.

Something allotted; a person's lot; (in later use) limitation of time, etc.

A portion, allotted quantity, allowance. archaic.

= ration, n. 3a. Obsolete.

transferred. A share or allowance.

A fixed allowance of a specified type of food, clothing, fuel, etc., officially allocated to each civilian during time of shortage, as in wartime.