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The act or process of ingrafting one kind of plant upon another stock by inserting a bud under the bark.

A boat or raft used in the East Indies in the landing of passengers and goods.

of a borough or city; at a certain yearly rent, or by services relating to trade or handicraft. Burrill.

matic diseases; -- called also ordeal bean, being used by the negroes in trials for witchcraft.

Characterized by cunning or shrewdness; crafty. [R.]

rrets, in which the side walls are inclined inward at the top, following the slope of the rafters, to meet the plane surface of the upper ceiling. -- Camp chair, a light chair that can be folded up compactly for easy transportation; the seat and back are often made of strips or pieces of carpet. -- Camp fever, typhus…

Caution; crafty management. [N. of Eng. & Scot.]

A rough draft or model of a song, air, or other literary or musical composition; esp. one to show a poet the measure of the verses he is to make. Grabb.

Ready money; especially, coin or specie; but also applied to bank notes, drafts, bonds, or any paper easily convertible into money.

A kind of raft or float, consisting of two or more logs or pieces of wood lashed together, and moved by paddles or sail; -- used as a surf boat and for other purposes on the coasts of the East and West Indies and South America. Modified forms are much used in the lumber regions of North America, and at life-saving stat…

Craft; deceit; falseness. [Obs.] Shak.

Crafty; deceitful; false. [Obs.] Shak. -- Cau"te*lous*ly, adv. -- Cau"te*lous*ness, n. [Obs.]

control, or summon by incantation or supernatural influence; to affect by magic. No witchcraft charm thee! Shak.

A tube usually of glass, placed around a flame, as of a lamp, to create a draft, and promote combustion.

uleth the stock; and the stock is but passive, and giveth aliment, but no motion, to the graft. Bacon.

o receive a pin, used on the end of the tongue of a plow, wagen, etc., to attach it to a draft chain, whiffletree, etc.; -- called also clavel, clevy.

One of a breed of heavy draft horses originally from Clydesdale, Scotland. They are about sixteen hands high and usually brown or bay.

One who aids another; an assistant; a coworker. Craftily outwitting her perjured coadjutor. Sheridan.

A crafty fox. [Obs.] Chaucer.

lar beam (Arch.), a horizontal piece of timber connecting and tying together two opposite rafters; -- also, called simply collar. -- Collar of brawn, the quantity of brawn bound up in one parcel. [Eng.] Johnson. -- Collar day, a day of great ceremony at the English court, when persons, who are dignitaries of honorary…