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To graft by cutting the scion and stock in a certain manner. See Whip grafting, under Grafting.

Power more than natural; irresistible influence. He hath a witchcraft Over the king in 's tongue. Shak.

Art or skill of the mind; contrivance; invention; wit. [Obs.] Camden.

in shooting, and other sports in the woods. Men of the glade and forest! leave Your woodcraft for the field of fight. Bryant.

Bereft. Chaucer.

n the model major scale (that in C), or the first tone of the minor scale, which is named after it the scale in A minor. The second string of the violin is tuned to the A in the treble staff. -- A sharp (A#) is the name of a musical tone intermediate between A and B. -- A flat (A) is the name of a tone intermediate b…

gives up to underwriters all claim to the property covered by a policy, which may remain after loss or damage by a peril insured against.

inquishment by the insured to the underwriters of what may remain of the property insured after a loss or damage by a peril insured against.

writ abates. To abate into a freehold, To abate in lands (Law), to enter into a freehold after the death of the last possessor, and before the heir takes possession. See Abatement, 4.

The entry of a stranger, without right, into a freehold after the death of the last possessor, before the heir or devisee. Blackstone. Defense in abatement, Plea in abatement, (Law), plea to the effect that from some formal defect (e.g. misnomer, want of jurisdiction) the proceedings should be abated.…

to make a short minute of a decision on a petition, or reply of the pope to a letter, and afterwards expand the minute into official form.

In bed, or on the bed. Not to be abed after midnight. Shak.

tury), mentioned by St. Augustine, who states that they married, but lived in continence, after the manner, as they pretended, of Abel.

The first month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year, corresponding nearly to our April. After the Babylonish captivity this month was called Nisan. Kitto.

The process of grafting now called inarching, or grafting by approach.

all quantity of wine and water, which is used to wash the priest's thumb and index finger after the communion, and which then, as perhaps containing portions of the consecrated elements, is drunk by the priest.

elf) to such a distance as to prevent intercourse; -- used with the reflexive pronoun. If after due summons any member absents himself, he is to be fined. Addison.

upt practice or custom; offense; crime; fault; as, the abuses in the civil service. Abuse after disappeared without a struggle.. Macaulay.

of Music. Academy figure (Paint.), a drawing usually half life-size, in crayon or pencil, after a nude model.

iew; as, he acceded to my request. The treaty of Hanover in 1725 . . . to which the Dutch afterwards acceded. Chesterfield.