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ance of; to give the possession or title of; to convey; -- usually in answer to petition. Grant me the place of this threshing floor. 1 Chrcn. xxi. 22.

Capable of being granted.

The person to whom a grant or conveyance is made. His grace will not survive the poor grantee he despises. Burke.

One who grants.

The person by whom a grant or conveyance is made.

Burning together in a common flame. [R.] "The conflagrant mass." Milton.

Removing from one country to another; emigrating; as, an emigrant company or nation.

Flaming; inflamed; glowing; burning; ardent. The beadle's lash still flagrant on their back. Prior. A young man yet flagrant from the lash of the executioner or the beadle. De Quincey. Flagrant desires and affections. Hooker.

In a flagrant manner.

[fragrans. -antis, p.pr. of fragrare to emit a smell of fragrance: cf. OF. fragrant. Affecting the olfactory nerves agreeably; sweet of smell; odorous; having or emitting an agreeable perfume. Fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers. Milton.

; one who comes to a country for the purpose of permanent residence; -- correlative of emigrant.

Not fragrant.

t of a whole; necessary to constitute an entire thing; integral. Boyle. All these are integrant parts of the republic. Burke. Integrant parts, or particles, of bodies, those smaller particles into which a body may be reduced without loss of its original constitution, as by mechanical division.

Migratory. Sir T. Browne. -- n.

To grant back; to grant again or anew. Ayliffe.

Migrating or passing from one place or state to another; passing from one residence to another. -- n.

Moving without certain direction; wandering; erratic; unsettled. That beauteous Emma vagrant courses took. Prior. While leading this vagrant and miserable life, Johnson fell in live. Macaulay.

In a vagrant manner.

State of being vagrant; vagrancy.

Having a sound, strong body; physically competent; robust. "Able-bodied vagrant." Froude. -- A`ble-bod"ied*ness, n..