grantor, or grantor

[ Eng.grant; -or.] Law: The person by whom a grant or conveyance is made. "A duplex querela shall not be granted under pain of office."- Ayliffe: Parergon. 1. To bestow, give, or confer, particularly in suspension for the grantor from the execution of his answer to prayer or request; to concede. "He is worthie that thou graunte to him this thing." Wycliffe: Luk vii. 2. To admit as true something not yet proved; to allow, to concede. IMG:content-0701.png:[blocks in formation] grăn-u-lạ, s. pl. [Latin granulum, dim in. of granum agrain.] Botany : 1. Large sporules contained in the center of many algals, as in the genus Gloionema. ( Lindley .) 2. The spore-case of a fungal. ( Treas . of Bot .) grăn-u-lar, a. [Eng. granul ( e ); -ar .] 1. Ord. Lang.: Composed of or resembling granules or grains. "The protoplasm comprising them is finely granular throughout."- Quain : Anatomy , ii. 23. 2. Bot . Divided into little knobs or knots, as the roots of Saxifraga granulata . ( Lindley .) granular crystalline-orthoclase, s. Min. & Petrol .: A variety of orthoclase. Dana includes under it granite, gnei , mica schist, syenite, syenitic gnei , granulite, albitic granite, pyroxenite, and miascite. granular-diabase, s. Petrol. A variety of diabase in which the individual constituents can be recognized by the naked eye. ( Rutley .) granular-limestone, s. Petrol.: A metamorphic limestone, composed of small grains or minute crystals intersecting each other in all directions, so as to produce a glimmering luster, though they themselves, taken singly, are brilliant. It is white, gray, yellowish, bluish For the difference between to grant and to give, gray, reddish, greenish, ., occasionally veined or see GIVE. grant, s. [GRANT, v.] *I. Ordinary Language: 1. The act of granting, bestowing, or conferring. *2. Consent, agreement. "You grant or your denial shall be mine." Shakesp.: Henry VI., Pt. III., iii. 3. 3. That which is granted, bestowed, or conferred; a gift, a boon; property conveyed by deed or patent. "All the Irish grants of William were annulled." Macaulay: Hist. Eng., ch. xxv. *4. The admi ion of something not yet proved as true; conce ion. "But of this so large a grant , we are content not to take advantage." -Hooker: Eccles. Polity. II. Law : The conveyance in writing of such things as cannot be pa ed or conveyed by word only, as lands, reversions, rents, ., or made by such persons as cannot give but by deed. "Thus mutual convenience introduced commercial traffic, and the reciprocal transfer of property by sale, grant, or conveyance; which may be considered either as a continuance of the original po e ion which the first occupant had, or as an abandoning of the thing by the present owner, and an immediate succe ive occupancy of the same by the new proprietor."- Black stone : Comment., bk. ii., ch. 1.