The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Grant \Grant\ (gr[.a]nt), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Granted; p. pr.
   & vb. n. Granting.] [OE. graunten, granten, OF. graanter,
   craanter, creanter, to promise, yield, LL. creantare to
   promise, assure, for (assumed LL.) credentare to make
   believe, fr. L. credens, p. pr. 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.
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            Grant me the place of this threshing floor. --1
                                                  Chron. xxi.
                                                  22.
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   2. To bestow or confer, with or without compensation,
      particularly in answer to prayer or request; to give.
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            Wherefore did God grant me my request. --Milton.
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   3. To admit as true what is not yet satisfactorily proved; to
      yield belief to; to allow; to yield; to concede.
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            Grant that the Fates have firmed by their decree.
                                                  --Dryden.

   Syn: Syn.-- To give; confer; bestow; convey; transfer; admit;
        allow; concede. See Give.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Grant \Grant\, v. i.
   To assent; to consent. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Grant \Grant\, n. [OE. grant, graunt, OF. graant, creant,
   promise, assurance. See Grant, v. t.]
   1. The act of granting; a bestowing or conferring;
      concession; allowance; permission.
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   2. The yielding or admission of something in dispute.
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   3. The thing or property granted; a gift; a boon. Especially:
      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.

   Note: Grants for research and other purposes are given
         usually by government agencies, charitable foundations,
         or industrial organizations.
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   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.
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   Note: 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. --Bouvier. --Burrill.
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U.S. Gazetteer (1990):

Grant, AL (town, FIPS 31096)
  Location: 34.51721 N, 86.25227 W
  Population (1990): 638 (268 housing units)
  Area: 4.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
  Zip code(s): 35747
Grant, IA (city, FIPS 32295)
  Location: 41.14222 N, 94.98511 W
  Population (1990): 123 (72 housing units)
  Area: 1.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
  Zip code(s): 50847
Grant, MI (city, FIPS 34360)
  Location: 43.33406 N, 85.81006 W
  Population (1990): 764 (311 housing units)
  Area: 1.7 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)
  Zip code(s): 49327
Grant, NE (city, FIPS 19910)
  Location: 40.84441 N, 101.72566 W
  Population (1990): 1239 (585 housing units)
  Area: 1.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
  Zip code(s): 69140
Grant, OK
  Zip code(s): 74738

Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

280 Moby Thesaurus words for "grant":
   OK, accede to, accept, accommodation, accord, accord to,
   accordance, acknowledge, administer, admit, admit everything,
   admit exceptions, afford, agree provisionally, agree to, aid,
   alimony, allocate, allot, allotment, allow, allow for, allowance,
   alms, annuity, approve, approve of, assent, assent grudgingly,
   assign, assistance, assume, avow, award, awarding, be afraid,
   be willing, believe, benefaction, bequest, bestow, bestow on,
   bestowal, bestowment, blank check, bounty, brevet, carte blanche,
   cede, cession, charity, charter, circumscription, come clean,
   communicate, communication, concede, conceive, concession,
   conclude, condescend, confer, conferment, conferral, confess,
   connive at, consent, consent to, consent to silently, consider,
   consider the circumstances, consider the source, contribution,
   cop a plea, copyright, daresay, deal, deal out, deduce, deem,
   deign, deliverance, delivery, depletion allowance, diploma,
   discount, dish out, dispensation, dispense, disregard, distribute,
   divine, dole, dole out, donate, donation, dream, endorse,
   endowment, exception, exemption, expect, express general agreement,
   extend, extenuating circumstances, fancy, favor, feel, fellowship,
   financial assistance, fork out, franchise, freedom, furnish,
   furnishment, gather, gift, gift with, gifting, give, give consent,
   give freely, give leave, give out, give permission,
   give the go-ahead, give the word, give up, giving, go along with,
   grain of salt, grant-in-aid, granting, guaranteed annual income,
   hand out, handout, have no objection, heap, hedge, hedging, help,
   help to, hold with, imagine, immunity, impart, impartation,
   impartment, indulgence, infer, investiture, issue, lavish, leave,
   let, let be, let have, let on, letters patent, liberality, liberty,
   license, lift temporarily, limitation, make allowance for,
   make possible, mental reservation, mete, mete out, modification,
   nod, nod assent, not oppose, not refuse, offer, okay,
   old-age insurance, open up, opine, out with it, own, own up,
   patent, pecuniary aid, pension, permit, plead guilty, pour,
   prefigure, present, presentation, presentment, presume, presuppose,
   presurmise, price support, privilege, proffer, provide for,
   provision, provisionally accept, public assistance, public welfare,
   qualification, rain, ratify, reckon, recognize, relax,
   relax the condition, release, relief, relinquish, render, repute,
   reservation, restriction, retirement benefits, royal grant, salvo,
   sanction, say, say aye, say the word, say yes, scholarship, serve,
   set aside, shell out, shower, slip, snow, special case,
   special favor, special treatment, specialness, specification,
   spill, spill it, spit it out, stipend, subscription, subsidization,
   subsidy, subvention, supply, supplying, support, suppose, surmise,
   surrender, suspect, take, take account of, take for,
   take for granted, take into account, take into consideration,
   take it, take kindly to, take to be, tax benefit, tell all,
   tell the truth, tender, think, understand, vote affirmatively,
   vote aye, vouchsafe, vouchsafement, waive, waiver, warrant,
   welfare, welfare aid, welfare payments, wink at, yield,
   yield assent