(grant, gränt) v.t.
1. To give or accord, as permission, a request, etc.
2. To confer or bestow, as a privilege, charter, favor, etc.
3. To admit as true, especially something not proved, as for the sake of argument; concede.
4. To transfer (property), especially by deed. See synonyms under ACKNOWLEDGE, ALLOT, ALLOW, APPORTION, CONFESS, GIVE.
—noun
1. The act of granting; a bestowing or conferring.
2. The thing granted; specifically, a piece of land granted to a person, state, etc., by the government.
3. An admission, concession.
4. One of certain tracts of land in New Hampshire, Maine, and Vermont, once belonging to Indian tribes, but allocated to settlers during the 18th century, and the subject of territorial controversy in colonial days.
5. A transfer of real property by deed. See synonyms under GIFT, SUBSIDY. [<AF graunter, granter, ult. <L credens, -entis, ppr. of credere believe]
—grant′a·ble adjective
—grant′er noun

(grant), Ulysses Simpson,
1822–85, U.S. general in the Civil War; 18th president of the United States 1869–77.