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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…

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

See Ingraft. Shak.

The act of ingrafting; ingraftment. [R.]

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.

To graft wrongly.

To graft again.

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

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

To craze. [Obs.] Grafton.

Obs.] In the wit and policy of the capitain consisteth the chief adeption of the victory. Grafton.

Acknowledgment. [Obs.] Grafton.

The act of ingrafting a sprig or shoot of one tree into another, without cutting it from the parent stock; -- called, also, inarching and grafting by approach.

To entrap; to insnare. [Obs.] Grafton.

By chance; by accident. [Obs.] Grafton.