Word Meanings - REGRAFT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To graft again.
Related words: (words related to REGRAFT)
- AGAINSTAND
To withstand. - GRAFTAGE
The science of grafting, including the various methods of practice and details of operation. - AGAINSAY
To gainsay. Wyclif. - AGAIN
again; on + geán, akin to Ger. gegewn against, Icel. gegn. Cf. 1. In return, back; as, bring us word again. 2. Another time; once more; anew. If a man die, shall he live again Job xiv. 14. 3. Once repeated; -- of quantity; as, as large again, - AGAINST
1. Abreast; opposite to; facing; towards; as, against the mouth of a river; -- in this sense often preceded by over. Jacob saw the angels of God come against him. Tyndale. 2. From an opposite direction so as to strike or come in contact with; in - AGAIN; AGAINS
Against; also, towards . Albeit that it is again his kind. Chaucer. - 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. - AGAINWARD
Back again. - GRAFTING
The act or method of weaving a cover for a ring, rope end, etc. - AGAINBUY
To redeem. Wyclif. - GRAFT
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 - CLEFTGRAFT
To ingraft by cleaving the stock and inserting a scion. Mortimer. - THEREAGAIN
In opposition; against one's course. If that him list to stand thereagain. Chaucer. - INGRAFTER
A person who ingrafts. - REGRAFT
To graft again. - WHIPGRAFT
To graft by cutting the scion and stock in a certain manner. See Whip grafting, under Grafting. - ENGRAFTATION; ENGRAFTMENT
The act of ingrafting; ingraftment. - MISGRAFT
To graft wrongly. - INGRAFTMENT
1. The act of ingrafting. 2. The thing ingrafted; a scion. - ENGRAFT
See SHAK