Grant

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·vt The thing or property granted; a gift; a boon.

II. Grant ·vt The yielding or admission of something in dispute.

III. Grant ·vi To Assent; to Consent.

IV. Grant ·vt The act of granting; a bestowing or conferring; concession; allowance; permission.

V. Grant ·vt To bestow or confer, with or without compensation, particularly in answer to prayer or request; to Give.

VI. Grant ·vt To give over; to make conveyance of; to give the possession or title of; to Convey;

— usually in answer to petition.

VII. Grant ·vt To admit as true what is not yet satisfactorily proved; to yield belief to; to Allow; to Yield; to Concede.

VIII. Grant ·vt A transfer of property by deed or writing; especially, au appropriation or conveyance made by the government; as, a grant of land or of money; also, the deed or writing by which the transfer is made.

Related Words

Grant, James
(1822-1887) Novelist, was the s. of an officer in the army, in which he himself served for a short ...

Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
Allen, Charles Grant
(1848-1899) Scientific writer and novelist, b. in Canada, to which his f., a clergyman, had emigrat...

Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
Grant, Mrs. Anne (M'Vicar)
(1755-1838) Was b. in Glasgow, and in 1779 m. the Rev. James Grant, minister of Laggan, Inverness-s...

Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
Grant, James Augustus
(1827-1892) Traveller, was an officer in the army, and was sent by the Royal Geographical Society a...

Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
White, Richard Grant
(1822-1885) Shakespearian scholar, b. in New York State, was long Chief of the Revenue Marine Burea...

Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
All Hallows le Grant
See All Hallows the Great. ...

A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
Duff, Sir Mountstuart E. Grant
(1829-1906) Miscellaneous writer, was M.P. for the Elgin Burghs, and Lieut.-Governor of Madras. He ...

Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin