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The business of making or managing rafts.

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…

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

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.

(Scot. Hist.), a standing committee of the Scottish Parliament to whom was intrusted the drafting and preparation of the acts, or bills for laws. -- The Thirty-nine Articles, statements (thirty-nine in number) of the tenets held by the Church of England.

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

ing from which a conclusion may be drawn. [Obs.] We practice likewise all conclusions of grafting and inoculating. Bacon.

The act or process of grafting by inoculation; budding. [Obs.] Holland.

The act of ingrafting; ingraftment. [R.]

To join (one thing) to another as if by grafting, so as to bring about a close union. And graft my love immortal on thy fame ! Pope.

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.

The act or process of grafting or mending. [Archaic]

A method of ingrafting. See Inarch.

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

To subject to the process of grafting; to furnish with grafts or scions; to graft; as, to ingraft a tree.

The act of ingrafting.

A contrivance to fasten logs together in rafting; -- used by lumbermen. [U.S.]

A sort of wax used in grafting, etc.

The halves of yarns in the unlaid end of a rope twisted for pointing or grafting.