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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.

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.

A confederate. Grafton.

The act or process of grafting by inoculation; budding. [Obs.] Holland.

To graft; to fix deeply. [Obs.]

See Ingraftment. [Obs.]

A short rope grafted on a harpoon, to which a longer lin Totten.

See Graft.

llustrious; plebeian; common; humble. I was not ignoble of descent. Shak. Her royal stock graft with ignoble plants. Shak.

A shoot; a scion; a bud; a slip; a graft. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The act or process of grafting or mending. [Archaic]

To graft by uniting, as a scion, to a stock, without separating either from its root before the union is complete; -- also called to graft by approach. P. Miler.

A method of ingrafting. See Inarch.

To ingraft, as a tree or plant, by the insertion of a bud or eye; to inoculate. The arts of grafting and ineying. J. Philips.

See Ingraft. [Obs.]