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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Inarching :: Inarching (n.) A method of ingrafting. See Inarch.
Graft :: Graft (n.) To implant a portion of (living flesh or akin) in a lesion so as to form an organic union.
Graft :: Graft (n.) To join (one thing) to another as if by grafting, so as to bring about a close union..
Grafted :: Grafted (imp. & p. p.) of Graf.
Grafter :: Grafter (n.) One who inserts scions on other stocks, or propagates fruit by ingrafting..
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..
Mummy :: Mummy (n.) A sort of wax used in grafting, etc..
Cutting :: Cutting (n.) Something cut, cut off, or cut out, as a twig or scion cut off from a stock for the purpose of grafting or of rooting as an independent plant; something cut out of a newspaper; an excavation cut through a hill or elsewhere to make a way for a railroad, canal, etc.; a cut..
Cleftgraft :: Cleftgraft (v. t.) To ingraft by cleaving the stock and inserting a scion.
Pippin :: Pippin (n.) An apple from a tree raised from the seed and not grafted; a seedling apple.
Graff :: Graff (n. & v.) See Graft.
Budding :: Budding (n.) The act or process of ingrafting one kind of plant upon another stock by inserting a bud under the bark.
Graft :: Graft (n.) To cover, as a ring bolt, block strap, splicing, etc., with a weaving of small cord or rope-yarns..
Ablactation :: Ablactation (n.) The process of grafting now called inarching, or grafting by approach..
Grafting :: Grafting (n.) A scarfing or endwise attachment of one timber to another.
Whipgraft :: Whipgraft (v. t.) To graft by cutting the scion and stock in a certain manner. See Whip grafting, under Grafting..
Engraft :: Engraft (v. t.) See Ingraft.
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..
Imp :: Imp (n.) To graft with new feathers, as a wing; to splice a broken feather. Hence, Fig.: To repair; to extend; to increase; to strengthen to equip..
Ingraft :: Ingraft (v. t.) To subject to the process of grafting; to furnish with grafts or scions; to graft; as, to ingraft a tree..
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