a. [ L. conflagrans, p. pr. of conflagrare; con- + flagrare to blaze. See Flagrant. ] Burning together in a common flame. [ R. ] “The conflagrant mass.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. emigrans, -antis, p. pr. of emigrare to emigrate: cf. F. émigrant. See Emigrate, v. i. ] 1. Removing from one country to another; emigrating; as, an emigrant company or nation. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Pertaining to an emigrant; used for emigrants; as, an emigrant ship or hospital. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who emigrates, or quits one country or region to settle in another.

Syn. -- Emigrant, Immigrant. Emigrant and emigration have reference to the country from which the migration is made; the correlative words immigrant and immigration have reference to the country into which the migration is made, the former marking the going out from a country, the latter the coming into it. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. flagrans, -antis, p. pr. of flagrate to burn, akin to Gr. &unr_;: cf. F. flagrant. Cf. Flame, Phlox. ] 1. Flaming; inflamed; glowing; burning; ardent. [ 1913 Webster ]

The beadle's lash still flagrant on their back. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

A young man yet flagrant from the lash of the executioner or the beadle. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

Flagrant desires and affections. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Actually in preparation, execution, or performance; carried on hotly; raging. [ 1913 Webster ]

A war the most powerful of the native tribes was flagrant. Palfrey. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Flaming into notice; notorious; enormous; heinous; glaringly wicked.

Syn. -- Atrocious; flagitious; glaring. See Atrocious. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a flagrant manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fragrant the fertile earth
After soft showers. Milton.

Syn. -- Sweet-smelling; odorous; odoriferous; sweet-scented; redolent; ambrosial; balmy; spicy; aromatic.

-- Fra"grant*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Granted; p. pr. & vb. n. Granting. ] [ OE. graunten, granten, OF. graanter, craanter, creanter, to promise, yield, LL. creantare to promise, assure, for (assumed LL.) credentare to make believe, fr. L. credens, p. pr. of credere to believe. See Creed, Credit. ] 1. To give over; to make conveyance of; to give the possession or title of; to convey; -- usually in answer to petition. [ 1913 Webster ]

Grant me the place of this threshing floor. 1 Chron. xxi. 22. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To bestow or confer, with or without compensation, particularly in answer to prayer or request; to give. [ 1913 Webster ]

Wherefore did God grant me my request. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To admit as true what is not yet satisfactorily proved; to yield belief to; to allow; to yield; to concede. [ 1913 Webster ]

Grant that the Fates have firmed by their decree. Dryden.

Syn.-- To give; confer; bestow; convey; transfer; admit; allow; concede. See Give. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To assent; to consent. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. grant, graunt, OF. graant, creant, promise, assurance. See Grant, v. t. ] 1. The act of granting; a bestowing or conferring; concession; allowance; permission. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The yielding or admission of something in dispute. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The thing or property granted; a gift; a boon. Especially: a sum of money given to an institution, group, or individual for a specific purpose, such as for scientific research; as, he got a million-dollar grant from the National Institutes of Health to study cancer. Grants for research and other purposes are given usually by government agencies, charitable foundations, or industrial organizations. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

4. (Law) A transfer of property by deed or writing; especially, an appropriation or conveyance made by the government; as, a grant of land or of money; also, the deed or writing by which the transfer is made. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Formerly, in English law, the term was specifically applied to transfers of incorporeal hereditaments, expectant estates, and letters patent from government and such is its present application in some of the United States. But now, in England the usual mode of transferring realty is by grant; and so, in some of the United States, the term grant is applied to conveyances of every kind of real property. Bouvier. Burrill. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being granted. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. Given. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. (Logic, Rhetoric) Acknowledged or assumed as a supposition.
Syn. -- given. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Law) The person to whom a grant or conveyance is made. [ 1913 Webster ]

His grace will not survive the poor grantee he despises. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who grants. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Law) The person by whom a grant or conveyance is made. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. immigrans, p. pr. of immigrare to go into: cf. F. immigrant. See Immigrate. ] One who immigrates; one who comes to a country for the purpose of permanent residence; -- correlative of emigrant.

Syn. -- See Emigrant. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not fragrant. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. integrans, -antis, p. pr. of integrare to make whole, renew: cf. F. intégrant. See Integrate. ] Making part of a whole; necessary to constitute an entire thing; integral. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

All these are integrant parts of the republic. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

Integrant parts, or
Integrant particles, of bodies, those smaller particles into which a body may be reduced without loss of its original constitution, as by mechanical division. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. migrans, p. pr. of migrare. See Migrate. ] Migratory. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A migratory bird, person, or other animal.

2. A person who changes residence frequently in search of employment, especially farm labor, such as harvesting crops seasonally; also called migrant laborer or migrant worker. Sometimes the migrant worker is not a resident of the country in which the work is performed. [ PJC ]

v. t. To grant back; to grant again or anew. Ayliffe. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of granting back to a former proprietor. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A renewed of a grant; as, the regrant of a monopoly. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. transmigrans, p. pr. See Transmigrate. ] Migrating or passing from one place or state to another; passing from one residence to another. -- n. One who transmigrates. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Probably fr. OF. waucrant, wacrant, p. p. of waucrer, wacrer, walcrer, to wander (probably of Teutonic origin), but influenced by F. vagant, p. pr. of vaguer to stray, L. vagari. Cf. Vagary. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Moving without certain direction; wandering; erratic; unsettled. [ 1913 Webster ]

That beauteous Emma vagrant courses took. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

While leading this vagrant and miserable life, Johnson fell in love. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Wandering from place to place without any settled habitation; as, a vagrant beggar. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who strolls from place to place; one who has no settled habitation; an idle wanderer; a sturdy beggar; an incorrigible rogue; a vagabond. [ 1913 Webster ]

Vagrants and outlaws shall offend thy view. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a vagrant manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. State of being vagrant; vagrancy. [ 1913 Webster ]