Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Grant

Grant (grȧnt) , transitive verb

[Old English graunten, granten, Old French graanter, craanter, creanter, to promise, yield, Late Latin creantare to promise, assure, for (assumed Late Latin) credentare to make believe, from Latin credens, present participle of credere to believe. See Creed, Credit.]

1.
To give over; to make conveyance of; to give the possession or title of; to convey; -- usually in answer to petition.
Grant me the place of this threshing floor. — 1 Chron. xxi. 22
2.
To bestow or confer, with or without compensation, particularly in answer to prayer or request; to give.
Wherefore did God grant me my request. — Milton
3.
To admit as true what is not yet satisfactorily proved; to yield belief to; to allow; to yield; to concede.
Grant that the Fates have firmed by their decree. — Dryden

Grant , intransitive verb

To assent; to consent. [Obsolete] — Chaucer

Grant , noun

[Old English grant, graunt, Old French graant, creant, promise, assurance. See Grant, transitive verb]

1.
The act of granting; a bestowing or conferring; concession; allowance; permission.
2.
The yielding or admission of something in dispute.

Grants for research and other purposes are given usually by government agencies, charitable foundations, or industrial organizations.

3.
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; as, he got a million-dollar grant from the National Institutes of Health to study cancer.
4.
(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.

Formerly, in English law, the term was specifically applied to transfers of incorporeal hereditaments, expectant estates, and letters patent from government and such is its present application in some of the United States. But now, in England the usual mode of transferring realty is by grant; and so, in some of the United States, the term grant is applied to conveyances of every kind of real property.