grant

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To consent to the fulfillment of: grant a request.
2. v. To accord as a favor, prerogative, or privilege: granted the franchise to all citizens.
3. v. To bestow; confer: grant aid.
4. v. To transfer (property) by a deed.
5. v. To concede; acknowledge: I grant the genius of your plan, but you still will not find backers.
6. n. The act of granting.
7. n. Something granted.
8. n. A giving of funds for a specific purpose: federal grants for medical research.
9. n. Law A transfer of property by deed.
10. n. Law The property so transferred.
11. n. Law The deed by which the property is so transferred.
12. n. One of several tracts of land in New Hampshire, Maine, and Vermont originally granted to an individual or a group.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To transfer the title or possession of in any formal way, specifically for a sufficient or valuable consideration; give or make over; especially, to convey by deed or writing.
2. To bestow or confer, particularly in answer to prayer or request.
3. To allow; permit.
4. To assent to; answer in the affirmative.
5. To admit to be true; concede, as something obvious or not required to be proved; accept or concede without proof.
6. Synonyms and
7. Confer, Bestow, etc. See give.
8. To consent; assent; give permission or countenance.
9. n. A promise; a thing promised.
10. n. The act of granting; a conferring or conceding.
11. n. A thing granted or conferred; a boon; especially, something conveyed by deed or patent: often used of tracts of land granted to colonists, railroad companies, etc.
12. n. In law: Originally, a creating or transferring by deed: used in reference to mere rights, estates in expectancy, and incorporeal property, which could not be delivered. Thus, easements, franchises, etc., were said to lie in grant, because they could not be created or transferred by livery or seizin.
13. n. In modern use, a conveyance in writing of such things as cannot pass or be transferred by word only, as land, rents, reversions, tithes, etc.
14. n. An admission of something as true.
15. n. In brewing, a copper or iron vessel into which the wort flows from the clarifying battery, and from which it is lifted into the wort-pan.
16. A Middle English form of grand.

Wiktionary

1. v. To give over; to make conveyance of; to give the possession or title of; to convey; -- usually in answer to petition.
2. v. To bestow or confer, with or without compensation, particularly in answer to prayer or request; to give.
3. v. To admit as true what is not yet satisfactorily proved; to yield belief to; to allow; to yield; to concede.
4. v. To assent; to consent.
5. n. The act of granting; a bestowing or conferring; concession; allowance; permission.
6. n. The yielding or admission of something in dispute.
7. n. The thing or property granted; a gift; a boon.
8. n. law A transfer of property by deed or writing; especially, an 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.
9. n. informal An application for a grant (monetary boon to aid research or the like).

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To give over; to make conveyance of; to give the possession or title of; to convey; -- usually in answer to petition.
2. v. To bestow or confer, with or without compensation, particularly in answer to prayer or request; to give.
3. v. To admit as true what is not yet satisfactorily proved; to yield belief to; to allow; to yield; to concede.
4. v. obsolete To assent; to consent.
5. n. The act of granting; a bestowing or conferring; concession; allowance; permission.
6. n. The yielding or admission of something in dispute.
7. n. The thing or property granted; a gift; a boon. a sum of money given to an institution, group, or individual for a specific purpose, such as for scientific research
8. n. (Law) A transfer of property by deed or writing; especially, an appropriation or conveyance made by the government; ; also, the deed or writing by which the transfer is made.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. let have
2. n. 18th President of the United States; commander of the Union armies in the American Civil War (1822-1885)
3. n. a right or privilege that has been granted
4. n. United States actor (born in England) who was the elegant leading man in many films (1904-1986)
5. n. the act of providing a subsidy
6. v. give as judged due or on the basis of merit
7. n. a contract granting the right to operate a subsidiary business
8. v. be willing to concede
9. n. any monetary aid
10. v. give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another
11. v. allow to have
12. n. Scottish painter; cousin of Lytton Strachey and member of the Bloomsbury Group (1885-1978)
13. v. transfer by deed
14. v. bestow, especially officially
15. n. (law) a transfer of property by deed of conveyance