vbl. sb. [f. ALLOT + -ING1.] A giving by lot, or as the lot or share of any one; apportionment, assignment. (Mostly gerundial.)
1598. Florio, Sortimento … an allotting by lot.
1611. Cotgr., Allotement … an allotting, or laying out vnto euery one his part.
1618. Bolton, Florus, III. iii. 168. Lawes touching the allotting out of Grounds.
1709. Tatler, No. 81, ¶ 1 (J.). Since Fame was the only End of all their Enterprizes and Studies, a Man cannot be too scrupulous in allotting them their due Proportion of it.
