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A German title of nobility, equivalent to earl in English, or count in French. See Earl.

A steward; an overseer. [A prince] is nothing but a servant, overseer, or graff, and not the head, which is a title belonging only to Christ. John Knox.

The scarp of a ditch or moat. "To clean the graffages." Miss Mitford.

a notary or scrivener. Bowvier.

Inscriptions, figure drawings, etc., found on the walls of ancient sepulchers or ruins, as in the Catacombs, or at Pompeii.

Production of decorative designs by scratching them through a surface of layer plaster, glazing, etc., revealing a different- colored ground; also, pottery or ware so decorated; -- chiefly used attributively.

e 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…

A hook or clasp. The feather of an ostrich, fastened in her turban by an agraffe set with brilliants. Sir W. Scott.

To ingraft by cleaving the stock and inserting a scion. Mortimer.

To graft; to fix deeply. [Obs.]

See Ingraftment. [Obs.]

See Ingraft. Shak.

The act of ingrafting; ingraftment. [R.]

See Ingraft. [Obs.]

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.

The act of ingrafting.