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See Draughtsman.

See Ingraft. Shak.

The act of ingrafting; ingraftment. [R.]

p. p. of Forleave. Chaucer.

The first shaft sunk. Raymond.

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…

id chiefly of a knife, sword, or dagger; the hilt. This brandish'dagger I'll bury to the haft in her fair breast. Dryden.

A caviler; a wrangler. [Obs.] Baret.

Same as Handicraft.

A handicraftsman.

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

A man skilled or employed in handcraft. Bacon.

In time to come; in some future time or state. Hereafter he from war shall come. Dryden.

Hereafter. [Obs.] Thou shalt hereafterward . . . come. Chaucer.

In the following part of this (writing, document, speech, and the like).

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.