a municipal and parliamentary borough and market-town of England, county of Lincoln, on the right bank of the Witham, 22 miles S.S.W. of Lincoln. The parish church is a spacious Gothic edifice of the thirteenth century, surmounted by an elegant spire 273 feet high, and has an elaborately carved font, and some splendid monuments. At the free grammar-school, founded by Bishop Fox, Sir Isaac Newton received part of his education. Grantham has also a guildhall, with a spacious assembly room, a gaol, house of correction, savings-bank, dispensary, several dissenting places of worship, and national and other schools. The principal trade is that of malting, which is carried on to a great extent. Market-day, Saturday. It is governed by a mayor, four aldermen, and twelve councillors, and returns two members to parliament. Pop. (1851) of municipal borough, 5,375; of parliamentary borough, 10,873.

GRANULATION of metals, an operation simply performed by slowly pouring the melted mass through an iron cullender into water, which is kept in agitation by means of a bundle of twigs. By this method metals may be reduced to minute grains.