Grant

1. v. t. 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.
2. v. t. To give over; to make conveyance of; to give the possession or title of; to convey; — usually in answer to petition.
3. v. t. To bestow or confer, with or without compensation, particularly in answer to prayer or request; to give.
4. v. t. To admit as true what is not yet satisfactorily proved; to yield belief to; to allow; to yield; to concede.
5. v. i. To assent; to consent.
6. v. t. The act of granting; a bestowing or conferring; concession; allowance; permission.
7. v. t. The yielding or admission of something in dispute.
8. v. t. The thing or property granted; a gift; a boon.

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.