[a. OFr. al(l)ouy, prop. alouys:—L. *allocātīci-um, -īti-um, one whose attribute it is to be allocāt-us, hired: see ALLOCATE and -ITIOUS. The final -s was in 14 c. Fr. occ. treated as a pl. inflexion, and so with allowes in Eng.] A hired servant, a hireling.
c. 1483. Chron. Lond. (1827), 156. As wele allowes and servaunts as the maisters.
1494. Fabyan, VI. cxcviii. 205. He shuld scantly haue of his owne, as alowys or seruaunt had.
