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To misgraft. [Obs.] Shak.

To graft wrongly.

To graft again.

Scratched; -- said of decorative painting of a certain style, in which a white overland surface is cut or scratched through, so as to form the design from a dark ground underneath.

To graft by cutting the scion and stock in a certain manner. See Whip grafting, under Grafting.

The process of grafting now called inarching, or grafting by approach.

To craze. [Obs.] Grafton.

Obs.] In the wit and policy of the capitain consisteth the chief adeption of the victory. Grafton.

Acknowledgment. [Obs.] Grafton.

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.

To entrap; to insnare. [Obs.] Grafton.

By chance; by accident. [Obs.] Grafton.

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. The apricot and the nectarine may be, and usually are, budded upon the peach; the plum and the p…

The act or process of ingrafting one kind of plant upon another stock by inserting a bud under the bark.

lboat, with a single mast placed as far forward as possible, carring a sail extended by a graff and long boom. See Illustration in Appendix.

ruleth the stock; and the stock is but passive, and giveth aliment, but no motion, to the graft. Bacon.

s.] Embassadors were sent upon both parts, and divers means of entreaty were commoned of. Grafton.

legally qualified; fit. "A competent knowledge of the world." Arrerbury. "Competent age." Grafton. "Competent statesmen." Palfrey. /"A competent witness." Bouvier.

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.

hing from which a conclusion may be drawn. [Obs.] We practice likewise all conclusions of grafting and inoculating. Bacon.