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A confederate. Grafton.

A vain, trifling woman, who endeavors to attract admiration from a desire to grafity vanity; a flirt; -- formerly sometimes applied also to men.

tea (-. Etym: [NL., luteous body] (Anat.), the reddish yellow mass which fills a ruptured Grafian follicle in the mammalian ovary. -- Corpus striatum (str; pl. Corpora striata (-t. Etym: [NL., striate body] (Anat.), a ridge in the wall of each lateral ventricle of the brain.

ove a viscount. The rank of an earl corresponds to that of a count (comte) in France, and graf in Germany. Hence the wife of an earl is still called countess. See Count.

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

To satisfy; grafity or minister to, as any sense, talent, taste, or desire. I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him. Shak. Feeding him with the hope of liberty. Knolles.

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

The crown of a king. [Obs.] Graffon.

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.

To bud; to insert, or graft, as the bud of a tree or plant in another tree or plant.

The insertion of a scion in a stock; ingraftment. Ray.

Snappish; peevish. [Obs.] Grafton.

The English equivalent of the German title of nobility, markgraf; a marquis.

To treat wrongfully. [Obs.] Grafton.

The act of demonstrating; proof. [Obs.] A certain monstration. Grafton.