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noun

Graft n.

A small shoot or scion of a tree inserted in another tree, the stock of which is to support and nourish it. The two unite and become one tree, but the graft determines the kind of fruit.

A branch or portion of a tree growing from such a shoot.

(Surg.) A portion of living tissue used in the operation of autoplasty.

Graft n.

Acquisition of money, position, etc., by dishonest or unjust means, as by actual theft or by taking advantage of a public office or any position of trust or employment to obtain fees, perquisites, profits on contracts, legislation, pay for work not done or service not performed, etc.; illegal or unfair practice for profit or personal advantage; also, anything thus gained. (Colloq.)

A "soft thing" or "easy thing;" a "snap." (Slang)

verb

Graft v. t. (past & past part. grafted; pres. part. grafting)

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)

(Surg.) To implant a portion of (living flesh or akin) in a lesion so as to form an organic union.

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!"

(Naut.) To cover, as a ring bolt, block strap, splicing, etc., with a weaving of small cord or rope-yarns.

Graft v. i. To insert scions from one tree, or kind of tree, etc., into another; to practice grafting.

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Etymology of 'Graft'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Graft" Quotes from Famous Books

... habits removed, and desires eradicated—a sort of psychic surgery was, in fact, in general use. Indignities, humbling experiences, were thus forgotten, amorous widows would obliterate their previous husbands, angry lovers release themselves from their slavery. To graft desires, however, was still impossible, and the facts of thought transference were yet unsystematised. The psychologists illustrated their expositions with some astounding experiments in mnemonics made through the agency of a troupe of ...

— When the Sleeper Wakes • Herbert George Wells

... those that have been torn down. One or two of them were famous in Revolutionary history. The owners of such as remained in my father's time were glad to have him take charge of their gardens. He knew how to bud or graft a tree, to trim grapevines, and to raise the best and earliest vegetables. In all that was to be done in a gentleman's garden he was so neat, so successful, so quiet and industrious, that whatever time he had to spare from his own was always in demand, ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865 • Various

... of increase is that of grafting. A graft or scion, which is a shoot with two or more buds on it of last year's growth, is inserted on the stem of ...

— The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. • Ellen Eddy Shaw

... of poetry, however, is not simply to instruct, but to "instruct by pleasing," is too obvious to need a proof. However the original object of measure and rhythm may have been to graft truth on the memory, and associate it with music; they are perpetuated by the universal conviction that they delight the ear. Like the armour which adorns the modern hall, they were contrived for use, but are continued ...

— Early Reviews of English Poets • John Louis Haney

... ephemeral, as unstable as one put together without nails or mortar; but such forget that future reward and punishment was no part of the early Hebrew cult—that the doctrine of man's immortality is but a late and apparently a Gentile graft; that the Buddhist religion, which has held the souls of countless millions in thrall, teaches complete extinction of the ego as the greatest good. Man does not embrace religion "for what there is in it"; does not ...

— Volume 1 of Brann The Iconoclast • William Cowper Brann

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