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fled to Avignon, where the treacliery of a French offi¬ 
cer drew liim into a fnare which put him in the liands 
of his purfuers, and he was committed to the prifon of 
St. Marguerite. Having found means to corrupt his 
guard, he made Ids efcape, firfi: to Spain and then to 
Holland. Tiience lie was invited by Auguftus king of 
Poland to his court ; but upon the regent’s death he re¬ 
turned to Fiance, wliere he ever after lived unmolefted. 
He continued to write, and was not fparing of his epi¬ 
grams and lampoons, as well againlt his relations and 
acquaintances as his enemies. He died at the family 
feat of Antoniat, in 1758. The works of La Grange, 
corre( 5 led by himfelf, appeared in 5 vols. i2mo. Paris, 
_i759. They confift of tragedies, operas, and mifcella- 
neous poems. Ofthefe, Ids tragedies are moft elleemed. 
The principal are, i. Jiigurtha. 2. Oreftes and Py- 
lades. 3. Athenais. 4. Amafis. 5. Ino and Melicerte. 
In his latter years he long employed himlelf on a Hil- 
tory of Pcrigord, which he left linfiniflied in manufcript. 
GRANGE, igrangia, Lat. from jri2?n</«.] A houfe 
orjifarm where corn is laid up in barns, granaries, &c. 
and provided with flables for horfes’, flails for oxen, 
and other things neceflary for hufbandry. Tlds defi¬ 
nition is agreeable to Spelman. According to Mr. 
Warton, grange is flriCtly and properly the farm of a 
monaflery, where the religious repofited their corn. 
But in Lincolnfldre and other northern counties, they 
call every lone houfe, or farm, which Hands folitary, a 
grange. See Steevens's Shakefpeare. —Dr. Johnfon, in Ids 
Dictionary, derives the word from French, and 
defines it, a farm, 'generally : a farm witli a houfe, at a 
diftance from neighbours. 
GRAis^GEA'RIUS, the perfon who has the care of 
a grange for corn and hufbandry ; and there w'as an¬ 
ciently a granger, or grange-keeper, belonging to reli¬ 
gious houfes, who was to look after their granges, or 
farms in their own hands. Fleta, lib. 2. c. 8. 
GRANGE-LE-BOURG, a town of France, in the de¬ 
partment of the Upper Saone, and chief place of a can¬ 
ton, in the diftriCl: ofLure ; two leagues and a half fouth. 
fouth-eaft of Lure. 
GRANGES, a town of United America, in the Hate 
of North Carolina : twenty-three miles louth-wefl of 
E.xeter. 
GRANGES, a town of France, in the department of 
the Lot and Garonne : two leagues eaft of Tonneins. 
GRANGNA'NO, a town of Italy, in the kingdom of 
Naples, and province of Principato Citra : fifteen miles 
welt of Salerno. 
GRAN'HULT, a town of Sweden, in the province 
of Smaland : thirty-five miles north-weft of Calmar. 
GRANGE'RIA, yi in botany, a genus of the clafs 
dodecandria, order monogynia. The generic characters 
arc—Calyx five-cleft ; petals five ; ilamina fifteen ; 
drupe fomewhat three-fided ; nut three-fided, bony, 
one-feeded. 
Grangcria Borbonica, a fingle fpecies. It is a tree 
with alternate, ovate, entire, leaves : flowers racemed. 
Grows at Bourbon. 
GRANGE'RUS, or Grangia'rus, /. An officer of 
a religious houfe, who was to look alter their grange 
or farm. See Grangearius. 
GRAN'ICUS, in ancient geography, a final! river 
near the Flellefpont in Leffer Alia, remarkable tor the 
firfi victory gained by Alexander the Great over the 
armies of Darius ;—for an account of which fee the ar¬ 
ticle Greece, hi this volume. 
GRANIF'EROUS, adj. Among botanifis, .pods 
which bear feed like grains, 
GRAN'ITE, f. Igranit, Fr. from granum, Lat. be- 
caule coixliftingas it where of grains or Imall difiinCt par¬ 
ticles.] A compound rock, ulually confidered as the ma¬ 
terial or nucleus of primitive mouiuaiiis j confifiing ot 
(juartz, feltl'par, and mica, and occafionally of horn¬ 
blende, fieatites, garnet, or bafaltes. The proportion 
and fizeofi-ts extremely variable, as* 
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well as their colour. The quartz, fcltfpar, and mica, 
confiitute ilie hardefi fort of granite, the moft anciently 
known. That into which the flioerl enters is more fub- 
jeCt to decompofition. The granite never hasany regu¬ 
lar form, but conlifts of enormous fliapelefs maffies, of 
great hardnefs. In the finer fpecimens the quartz is 
tranfparent; in others, generally white or grey, violet 
or brown. The feltfpar, white, yellow, red, green, or 
black, is generally the moft copious ingredient. The 
mica is alfo grey, brown, yellow, green, red, violet, or 
black, and is commonly leaft copious. The flioerl is 
generally black. Hence the colour of granites cliiefly 
depends on that of the I'par or flioerl. The red granites 
confift commonly of white quartz, red feltfpar, and 
grey mica. The grey of white quartz, grey or violet 
feltfpar, and black mica. The black commonly con- 
tian fhoerl, inftead of feltfpar; and the green com¬ 
monly contain green quartz.—For the different fpecies, 
and countries where found, lee Granites, under the arti¬ 
cle Miner.alog Y. 
GRANIV'OROUS, adj. \_granum, and voro, Lat,] 
Earing grain; living upon grain.— Granivorous birds, as 
a crane, upon the firfi peck of their bills, can diftin- 
guifli the qualities of hard bodTes, which the fenfe of 
men difeerns not without maftication. Brown. 
GRAN'NA, a town of Sweden, in the province of 
Smaland; eighteen miles north-north-eart of John- 
kioping. 
GRAN'NAM, f. [for grandam.'\ Grandmother. 
Oiily ufed in burlefque works.—Oft my kind grannam 
told me, Tim, take warning. Gay, 
GRANOL'LERS, a town of Spain, in the province 
of Catalonia: eighteen miles north-north-eaft of Bar¬ 
celona. ^ 
GRAN'SEE, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
Upper Saxony, and Middle Mark of Brandenbugh : 
fifeeen miles eaft-north-eaft of New Ruppin, and thirty 
north-weft of Berlin. Lat. 53. 2. N. Ion. 30. 59. E. 
Ferro. 
GR ANSKE'VITZ, a town of Germany, in the cir¬ 
cle of Upper Saxony, and duchy of Pomerania : twelve 
miles north-weft of Rugen. 
GRAN'SO, an illand in the Baltic, near the eaft coaft 
of Sweden. Lat. 57.46. N. Ion. 16. 36. E. Ferro. 
GRAN'SON, a town of Swiflerland, and capital of a 
bailiwick, in the county of Neufchatel fituated be- 
tween'the lake of Neufchatel and Mount-Jura: cele¬ 
brated for a vittory, which the Swifs attained over 
Charles the Hardy, in 1476. The reformation was 
pretty generally received here im 1366 ; fixteen miles 
fouth-weft of Neufchatel. Lat. 46. 50. N. Ion. 24. 14. 
E. Ferro. 
GR.ANT, otherwife called the river Cam, which fee. 
To GRf^NT, V. a. \_from garantir, Fr. Junius and Skin¬ 
ner ; perhaps, as Mui/kcw thinks, from gratuito, Lat. or ra¬ 
ther U'omgratia or gratificor. ] To admit that which is not 
yet proved ; to allow ; to yield ; to concede.—If he be 
one indifterent as to the rebellion, they may take it for 
granted his complaint is the rage of a difappointed man. 
Addifon. 
Suppofe, w hich yet I grant not, thy defire 
A moment elder than my rival fire. 
Can chance of feeing firfi thy title prove?- Dryden. 
To beftow fomething which cannot be claimed of right. 
—The God of Ifrael grant thee thy petition that thou 
ha.ft afked of him. i Sam. xvii.— i hen hath God alfo to 
the Gentiles granted repentance unto life, ASs, xiii. 18. 
GRANT, f. The adl of granting or beftowing. 
The thing granted ; a gift; a boon : 
Courtiers juftle for di grant. 
And when they break ^fieir friendlhip plead their want, 
Dryden. 
Conceliion ; admillion of fomething in difpute.—This 
erant deftroys all you have urg’d before. Dryden. 
^ GRANT, 
