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

The act of reinserting.

The insertion of needles into the living tissues for remedial purposes.

f the size of a door or window, either for symmetrical effect, or for the more convenient insertion of a door or window at a future time, should it be needed. -- Blank indorsement (Law), an indorsement which omits the name of the person in whose favor it is made; it is usually made by simply writing the name of the in…

loading firearm, and resists the backward force of the discharge. It is withdrawn for the insertion of a cartridge, and closed again before the gun is fired.

Intercalation; the insertion of days, months, or years, in an account of time, to produce regularity; as, the embolism of a lunar month in the Greek year.

The insertion of a letter or a sound in the body of a word; as, the b in "nimble" from AS. nemol.

To insert (a graft) in a branch or stem of another tree; to propagate by insertion in another stock; also, to insert a graft upon. [Formerly written graff.]

A small hole in a boiler for the insertion of the hand in cleaning, etc. Hand-hole plate, the cover of a hand-hole.

A blacksmith's fuller or chisel, having a square shank for insertion into a square hole in an anvil, called the hardy hole.

To cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in; as, to hole a post for the insertion of rails or bars. Chapman.

The space taken out of one solid, to admit the insertion of part of another, as the end of one timber in the side of another.

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.

undwork of some other material; to form an ornamental surface; to diversify or adorn with insertions. Look,how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold. Shak. But these things are . . . borrowed by the monks to inlay their story. Milton.

That which is inserted or set in; an insertion.

The insertion of a scion in a stock; ingraftment. Ray.

The insertion of a day, or other portion of time, in a calendar.

To alter or corrupt by the insertion of new or foreign matter; especially, to change, as a book or text, by the insertion of matter that is new, or foreign to the purpose of the author. How strangely Ignatius is mangled and interpolated, you may see by the vast difference of all copies and editions. Bp. Barlow. The Ath…

Inserted in, or added to, the original; introduced; foisted in; changed by the insertion of new or spurious matter.

The insertion of points between word or sentences; punctuation.