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To insert a foreign bud into; as, to inoculate a tree.

Having two eyes.

To ingraft, as a tree or plant, by the insertion of a bud or eye; to inoculate. The arts of grafting and ineying. J. Philips.

Capable of being inoculated; capable of communicating disease, or of being communicated, by inoculation.

One who inoculates; one who propagates plants or diseases by inoculation.

To inoculate with syphilis.

pon anything; to have the natural or intended effect; to accomplish a purpose; as, he was inoculated, but the virus did not take. Shak. When flame taketh and openeth, it giveth a noise. Bacon. In impressions from mind to mind, the impression taketh, but is overcome . . . before it work any manifest effect. Bacon.…

To inoculate with the cowpox by means of a virus, called vaccine, taken either directly or indirectly from cows.