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See Draughtsman.

See Ingraft. Shak.

The act of ingrafting; ingraftment. [R.]

stock of which is to support and nourish it. The two unite and become one tree, but the graft determines the kind of fruit.

The science of grafting, including the various methods of practice and details of operation.

One who inserts scions on other stocks, or propagates fruit by ingrafting.

A scarfing or endwise attachment of one timber to another. Cleft grafting (Hort.) a method of grafting in which the scion is placed in a cleft or slit in the stock or stump made by sawing off a branch, usually in such a manaer that its bark evenly joins that of the stock. -- Crown, or Rind, grafting, a method of graft…

Same as Handicraft.

A handicraftsman.

A trade requiring skill of hand; manual occupation; handcraft. Addison.

A man skilled or employed in handcraft. Bacon.

To insert, as a scion of one tree, shrub, or plant in another for propagation; as, to ingraft a peach scion on a plum tree; figuratively, to insert or introduce in such a way as to make a part of something. This fellow would ingraft a foreign name Upon our stock. Dryden. A custom . . . ingrafted into the monarchy of Ro…

A person who ingrafts.

The act of ingrafting.

The craft of kings; the art of governing as a sovereign; royal policy. Prescott.

The art of healing; skill of a physician. [Archaic] Chaucer.

To graft wrongly.

To exceed in cunning. [R.] Shak.

The act of overdrawing; also, the amount or sum overdrawn.

osing or writing; authorship. I would not give a groat for that person's knowledge in pencraft. S