Award

1. v. t. The paper containing the decision of arbitrators; that which is warded.
2. v. t. To give by sentence or judicial determination; to assign or apportion, after careful regard to the nature of the case; to adjudge; as, the arbitrators awarded damages to the complainant.
3. v. i. To determine; to make an award.
4. v. t. A judgment, sentence, or final decision. Specifically: The decision of arbitrators in a case submitted.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.