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Word Meanings - GRAFT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

OF. grafe pencil, L. graphium, Gr. carve. So named from the resemblance of a scion or shoot to a pointed pencil. Cf. Graphic, 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

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OF. grafe pencil, L. graphium, Gr. carve. So named from the resemblance of a scion or shoot to a pointed pencil. Cf. Graphic, 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. A portion of living tissue used in the operation of autoplasty.

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  • ANNEX
    to; ad + nectere to tie, to fasten together, akin to Skr. nah to 1. To join or attach; usually to subjoin; to affix; to append; -- followed by to. "He annexed a codicil to a will." Johnson. 2. To join or add, as a smaller thing to a greater. He
  • UNITERABLE
    Not iterable; incapable of being repeated. "To play away an uniterable life." Sir T. Browne.
  • GRAFTAGE
    The science of grafting, including the various methods of practice and details of operation.
  • ADOPT
    1. To take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen, etc. ; esp. to take voluntarily to be in the place of, or as, one's own child. 2. To take or receive as one's own what is not so naturally; to select and take or approve;
  • ANNEXATION
    1. The act of annexing; process of attaching, adding, or appending; the act of connecting; union; as, the annexation of Texas to the United States, or of chattels to the freehold. The union of property with a freehold so as to become a fixture.
  • ANNEXATIONIST
    One who favors annexation.
  • INCORPORATED
    United in one body; formed into a corporation; made a legal entity.
  • AFFILIATE
    1. To adopt; to receive into a family as a son; hence, to bring or receive into close connection; to ally. Is the soul affiliated to God, or is it estranged and in rebellion I. Taylor. 2. To fix the paternity of; -- said of an illegitimate child;
  • ANNEXIONIST
    An annexationist.
  • INCORPORATE
    1. Not consisting of matter; not having a material body; incorporeal; spiritual. Moses forbore to speak of angles, and things invisible, and incorporate. Sir W. Raleigh. 2. Not incorporated; not existing as a corporation; as, an incorporate banking
  • ADOPTER
    A receiver, with two necks, opposite to each other, one of which admits the neck of a retort, and the other is joined to another receiver. It is used in distillations, to give more space to elastic vapors, to increase the length of the neck of a
  • GRAFTER
    An instrument by which grafting is facilitated. 3. The original tree from which a scion has been taken for grafting upon another tree. Shak. (more info) 1. One who inserts scions on other stocks, or propagates fruit by ingrafting.
  • UNITEDLY
    In an united manner. Dryden.
  • ADOPTED
    Taken by adoption; taken up as one's own; as, an adopted son, citizen, country, word. -- A*dopt"ed*ly, adv.
  • ADOPTIONIST
    One of a sect which maintained that Christ was the Son of God not by nature but by adoption.
  • ANNEXION
    Annexation. Shak.
  • UNITER
    One who, or that which, unites.
  • GRAFTING
    The act or method of weaving a cover for a ring, rope end, etc.
  • ADOPTION
    1. The act of adopting, or state of being adopted; voluntary acceptance of a child of other parents to be the same as one's own child. 2. Admission to a more intimate relation; reception; as, the adoption of persons into hospitals or monasteries,
  • ADOPTABLE
    Capable of being adopted.
  • CLEFTGRAFT
    To ingraft by cleaving the stock and inserting a scion. Mortimer.
  • DISINCORPORATE
    1. To deprive of corporate powers, rights, or privileges; to divest of the condition of a corporate body. 2. To detach or separate from a corporation. Bacon.
  • ALUNITE
    Alum stone.
  • REANNEXATION
    Act of reannexing.
  • REUNITEDLY
    In a reunited manner.
  • INGRAFTER
    A person who ingrafts.
  • BRAUNITE
    A native oxide of manganese, of dark brownish black color. It was named from a Mr. Braun of Gotha.
  • PREMUNITE
    To fortify beforehand; to guard against objection. Fotherby.
  • COANNEX
    To annex with something else.

 

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