Emily Dickinson Lexicon

GRAFT, v.t. [Fr. greffer.]

1. To insert a cion or shoot, or a small cutting of it, into another tree. Dryden.
2. To propagate by insertion or inoculation. Dryden.
3. To insert in a body to which it did not originally belong. Rom. xi. 17.
4. To impregnate with a foreign branch. Shak.
5. To join one thing to another so as to receive support from it. And graft my love immortal on thy fame. Pope.