Emily Dickinson Lexicon

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.