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A setting in.

To graft, as a plant with another or into another, by inserting a bud from the one into an opening in the bark of the other, in order to raise, upon the budded stock, fruit different from that which it would naturally bear. The apricot and the nectarine may be, and usually are, budded upon the peach; the plum and the p…

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

A california woodpecker (Melanerpes formicivorus), noted for its habit of inserting acorns in holes which it drills in trees. The acorns become infested by insect larvæ, which, when grown, are extracted for food by the bird.

An instrument for measuring or inserting a charge.

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

An operation that consists in inserting needless in the part affected, and connecting them with the poles of a galvanic apparatus.

To communicate a disease to ( a person ) by inserting infectious matter in the skin or flesh; as, to inoculate a person with the virus of smallpox,rabies, etc. See Vaccinate.

The act or practice of communicating a disease to a person in health, by inserting contagious matter in his skin or flesh.

The act of inserting; as, the insertion of scions in stocks; the insertion of words or passages in writings.

The act of introducing or inserting anything, especially that which is spurious or foreign.

The act of one who lines; the act or process of making lines, or of inserting a lining.

The act or process of making a pad or of inserting stuffing.

The act of reinserting.

egulating the resistance of a circuit, or varying the strength of an electric current, by inserting a greater or less length of it in the circuit.

ear's-foot (Helleborus foetidus); -- so called because the root was used in settering, or inserting setons into the dewlaps of cattle. Called also pegroots. Dr. Prior.

A stylet, usually with a triangular point, used for exploring tissues or for inserting drainage tubes, as in dropsy. [Written also trochar.]