TO GRANT THE FAVOUR, verb. phr. (venery).—To confer the sexual embrace; TO SPREAD (q.v.).
1720. D’URFEY, Wit and Mirth; or Pills to Purge Melancholy, vi., 58.
| If at last she GRANTS THE FAVOUR, | |
| And consents to be undone. |
1754. FIELDING, Jonathan Wild, iv. 7. I … never would GRANT THE FAVOUR to any man till I had drunk a heavy glass with him.
