Search the Dictionary

A sort of wax used in grafting, etc.

The halves of yarns in the unlaid end of a rope twisted for pointing or grafting.

or substitute; as, to deliver a letter personally. He, being cited, personally came not. Grafton.

An apple from a tree raised from the seed and not grafted; a seedling apple.

The act of forming or molding. [R.] Grafton.

To invest with the office of prebendary; to present to a prebend. [Obs.] Grafton.

To prefigure. [R.] Grafton.

Depending on, or derived from, prescription; proper to be prescribed. Grafton.

egligence. Wyatt. God shall give power to redub it with some like requital to the French. Grafton.

In general, to fill up the measure of a want of (a person or a thing); hence, to grafity fully the desire of; to make content; to supply to the full, or so far as to give contentment with what is wished for. Death shall . . . with us two Be forced to satisfy his ravenous maw. Milton.

A piece of a slender branch or twig cut for grafting. [Formerly written also cion, and cyon.]

d by the tendency of water to adhere to the immersed surface (skin) of a vessel. -- Skin graft (Surg.), a small portion of skin used in the process of grafting. See Graft, v. t., 2. -- Skin moth (Zoöl.), any insect which destroys the prepared skins of animals, especially the larva of Dermestes and Anthrenus. -- Skin…

To unite in marrige. [Slang] Splice grafting.ee under Grafting. -- To splice the main brace (Naut.), to give out, or drink, an extra allowance of spirits on occasion of special exposure to wet or cold, or to severe fatigue; hence, to take a dram.

A tree of natural size supported by its own stem, and not dwarfed by grafting on the stock of a smaller species nor trained upon a wall or trellis. In France part of their gardens is laid out for flowers, others for fruits; some standards, some against walls. Sir W. Temple.

The stem or branch in which a graft is inserted. The scion overruleth the stock quite. Bacon.

y recomforted by Sir William Stanley, which came to succors with three thousand tall men. Grafton.

on used for uniting surfaces, for excluding air, and for other purposes; as, sealing wax, grafting wax, etching wax, etc.

around larger drum on the same axle. -- Whip gin. See Gin block, under 5th Gin. -- Whip grafting. See under Grafting. -- Whip hand, the hand with which the whip is used; hence, advantage; mastery; as, to have or get the whip hand of a person. Dryden. -- Whip ray (Zoöl.), the European eagle ray. See under Ray. -- W…