Definition for IN-GRAFT'

IN-GRAFT', v.t. [in and graff. The original word is ingraff or graff, but it is corrupted beyond recovery.]

  1. To insert a cion of one tree or plant into another for propagation; as, to ingraft the cion of an apple-tree on a pear-tree, as its stock; to ingraft a peach on a plum.
  2. To propagate by insition. May.
  3. To plant or introduce something foreign into that which is native, for the purpose of propagation. This fellow would ingraft a foreign name / Upon our stock. Dryden.
  4. To set or fix deep and firm. Ingrafted love he bears to Cesar. Shak.

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