Emily Dickinson Lexicon

GRAND'NESS, n.

Grandeur; greatness with beauty; magnificence. Wollaston.

GRAND'SIRE, n.

1. A grandfather.
2. In poetry and rhetoric, any ancestor. Dryden. Pope.

GRAND'SON, n.

The son of a son or daughter.

GRANGE, n. [grānj; Fr. grange, a barn; grangier, a farmer; Sp. grangear, to cultivate; grangero, a farmer; Ir. grainseach, a grange; Scot. grange, the buildings belonging to a corn farm, originally a place where the rents and tithes, paid in grain to religious houses, were deposited; from granum, grain.]

A farm, with the buildings, stables, &c. Milton. Shak.

GRAN'I-LITE, n. [See Granit.]

Indeterminate granit; granit that contains more than three constituent parts. [Obs.] Kirwan.

GRAN'IT, or GRAN'ITE, n. [Fr. granit; It. granito, grained.]

In mineralogy, an aggregate stone or rock, composed of crystaline grains of quartz, feldspar and mica, or at least of two of these minerals, united without a cement, or confusedly crystalized. The grains vary in size from that of a pin's head, to a mass of two or three feet; but usually the largest size is that of a nut. The color of granit is greatly diversified by the different colors and proportions of the component parts, and in general these stones are very hard. Dict. Nat. Hist. Kirwan.

GRAN'I-TEL, n. [dim of granit.]

A binary aggregate of minerals; a granitic compound containing two constituent parts, as quartz and feldspar, or quartz and shorl or hornblend. Kirwan. Italian workmen give this name to a variety of gray granit consisting of small grains. Dict. Nat. Hist.

GRAN-IT'IC, a.

1. Pertaining to granit; like granit; having, the nature of granit; as, granitic texture.
2. Consisting of granit; as, granitic mountains. Granitic aggregates, in mineralogy, granular compounds of two or more simple minerals, in which only one of the essential ingredients of granit is present; as quartz and hornblend, feldspar and shorl, &c. Similar compounds occur, in which none of the ingredients of granit are present. Cleveland.

GRAN'I-TIN, n.

A granitic aggregate of three species of minerals, some of which differ from the species which compose granit as quartz, feldspar, and jade or shorl. Kirwan.

GRAN'I-TOID, a.

Resembling granite.

GRA-NIV'O-ROUS, a. [L. granum, grain, and voro, to eat.]

Eating grain; feeding or subsisting on seeds; as, granivorous birds. Brown.

GRAN'NAM, n.

for Grandam, a grandmother. [Vulgar.] B. Jonson.

GRANT, n.

1. The act of granting; a bestowing or conferring.
2. The thing granted or bestowed; a gift; a boon.
3. In law, a conveyance in writing, of such things as can not pass or be transferred by word only, as land, rents, reversions, tithes, &c. A grant is an executed contract. Z. Swift.
4. Concession; admission of something as true. Dryden.
5. The thing conveyed by deed or patent.

GRANT, v.t. [Norm. granter, to grant, to promise, or agree. I have not found this word in any other language. Perhaps n is not radical, for in some ancient charters it is written grat. “Gratamus et concedimus.” Spelman.]

1. To admit as true what is not proved; to allow; to yield; to concede. We take that for granted which is supposed to be true. Grant that the fates have firmed, by their decree. Dryden.
2. To give; to bestow or confer on without compensation, particularly in answer to prayer or request. Thou hast granted me life and favor. Job x. God granted him that which he requested. 1 Chron. iv.
3. To transfer the title of a thing to another, for a good or valuable consideration; to convey by deed or writing. The legislature have granted all the new land. Grant me the place of this threshing floor. 1 Chron. xxi.

GRANT'A-BLE, a.

That may be granted or conveyed.

GRANT'ED, pp.

Admitted as true; conceded; yielded; bestowed; conveyed.

GRANT-EE', n.

The person to whom a conveyance is made.

GRANT'ING, ppr.

Admitting; conceding; bestowing; conveying.

GRANT'OR, n.

The person who grants; one who conveys land, rents, &c.

GRAN'U-LAR, a. [from L. granum, grain.]

1. Consisting of grains; as, a granular substance.
2. Resembling grains; as, a stone of granular appearance.

GRAN'U-LAR-LY, adv.

In a granular form.

GRAN'U-LA-RY, a.

Resembling grains.

GRAN'U-LATE, v.i.

To collect or be formed into grains; as, cane-juice granulates into sugar; melted metals granulate when poured into water.

GRAN'U-LATE, v.t. [Fr. granuler, from L. granum.]

1. To form into grains or small masses; as, to granulate powder or sugar.
2. To raise in small asperities; to make rough on the surface. Ray.

GRAN'U-LA-TED, pp.

1. Formed into grains.
2. adj. Consisting of grains; resembling grains.