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or setting free from guilt, sin, or penalty; forgiveness of an offense. "Government . . . granting absolution to the nation." Froude.

To grant as suitable or proper; to concede; to award; as, to accord to one due praise. "According his desire." Spenser.

To revoke, as a legacy, grant, etc., or to satisfy it by some other gift.

The revocation or taking away of a grant donation, legacy, or the like. Bouvier.

ing term execution not being in use. Administration with the will annexed, administration granted where the testator has appointed no executor, or where his appointment of an executor for any cause has failed, as by death, incompetency, refusal to act, etc.

ho administers the estate of an intestate, or to whom letters of administration have been granted; a female administrator.

The granting of an argument or position not fully proved; the act of acknowledging something The too easy admission of doctrines. Macaulay.

To suffer to enter; to grant entrance, whether into a place, or into the mind, or consideration; to receive; to take; as, they were into his house; to admit a serious thought into the mind; to admit evidence in the trial of a cause.

A thing or person coming from without; an immigrant. [R.] Bacon.

To give, grant, or confer, with a remoter reference to its being the natural result; to provide; to furnish; as, a good life affords consolation in old age. His tuneful Muse affords the sweetest numbers. Addison. The quiet lanes . . . afford calmer retreats. Gilpin.

A subsidy granted to the king by Parliament; also, an exchequer loan.

ual concerned; to assign as a share or lot; to set apart as one's share; to bestow on; to grant; to appoint; as, let every man be contented with that which Providence allots him. Ten years I will allot to the attainment of knowledge. Johnson.

That which is allotted; a share, part, or portion granted or distributed; that which is assigned by lot, or by the act of God; anything set apart for a special use or to a distinct party. The alloments of God and nature. L'Estrange. A vineyard and an allotment for olives and herbs. Broome.

To grant, give, admit, accord, afford, or yield; to let one have; as, to allow a servant his liberty; to allow a free passage; to allow one day for rest. He was allowed about three hundred pounds a year. Macaulay.

The act of allowing, granting, conceding, or admitting; authorization; permission; sanction; tolerance. Without the king's will or the state's allowance. Shak.

Grant all this; be it that; supposing that; notwithstanding; though. Although all shall be offended, yet will no I. Mark xiv. 29.

A fragrant flower. Tennyson.

A species of Anthospermum, a shrub with evergreen leaves, which, when bruised, emit a fragrant odor.

A fragrant substance which is the chief constituent of ambergris.

Formerly, a kind of fragrant plant; now (Bot.), a genus of plants, including some coarse and worthless weeds, called ragweed, hogweed, etc.