Definition of graft

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Graft (n.) A small shoot or scion of a tree inserted in another tree, the stock of which is to support and nourish it. The two unite and become one tree, but the graft determines the kind of fruit..

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Wax :: Wax (n.) A waxlike composition used for uniting surfaces, for excluding air, and for other purposes; as, sealing wax, grafting wax, etching wax, etc..
Mummy :: Mummy (n.) A sort of wax used in grafting, etc..
Graft :: Graft (n.) A portion of living tissue used in the operation of autoplasty.
Graft :: Graft (n.) To cover, as a ring bolt, block strap, splicing, etc., with a weaving of small cord or rope-yarns..
Ineye :: Ineye (v. t.) To ingraft, as a tree or plant, by the insertion of a bud or eye; to inoculate..
Ingrafting :: Ingrafting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ingraf.
Grafter :: Grafter (n.) The original tree from which a scion has been taken for grafting upon another tree.
Ingraff :: Ingraff (v. t.) See Ingraft.
Foreganger :: Foreganger (n.) A short rope grafted on a harpoon, to which a longer lin/ may be attached..
Whipgraft :: Whipgraft (v. t.) To graft by cutting the scion and stock in a certain manner. See Whip grafting, under Grafting..
Emplastration :: Emplastration (n.) The act or process of grafting by inoculation; budding.
Approaching :: Approaching (n.) The act of ingrafting a sprig or shoot of one tree into another, without cutting it from the parent stock; -- called, also, inarching and grafting by approach..
Bud :: Bud (v. t.) To graft, as a plant with another or into another, by inserting a bud from the one into an opening in the bark of the other, in order to raise, upon the budded stock, fruit different from that which it would naturally bear..
Engraffment :: Engraffment (n.) See Ingraftment.
Ablactation :: Ablactation (n.) The process of grafting now called inarching, or grafting by approach..
Graft :: Graft (v. i.) To insert scions from one tree, or kind of tree, etc., into another; to practice grafting..
Inoculate :: Inoculate (v. i.) To graft by inserting buds.
Graft :: Graft (n.) To implant a portion of (living flesh or akin) in a lesion so as to form an organic union.
Ingrafted :: Ingrafted (imp. & p. p.) of Ingraf.
Composite :: Composite (v. t.) Belonging to a certain order which is composed of the Ionic order grafted upon the Corinthian. It is called also the Roman or the Italic order, and is one of the five orders recognized by the Italian writers of the sixteenth century. See Capital..
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