A shoot or twig containing buds from a woody plant cut and inserted into a living plant of the same or a related species
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "graft" in the following sentence: When the operation is performed close to the ground, or even under the surface; after the "graft" is properly tied draw up earth all round, leaving one or two buds above; this method is both convenient, and in many instances preferable, and more to be depended upon, than the other
A layer of fine soil placed at the bottom of a hole for a tree seedling
A graft of a shoot or twig onto a living plant
A plant resulting from grafting
A graft
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "graft" in the following sentence: In all cases success is more certain, when the wax is closely pressed so as to fit closely to every part, and leave no interstices; and it is indispensible that every por tion of the wound on the stock and "graft" be totally excluded from the operation
To unite ( a shoot or twig ) with the stock of a plant
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "graft" in the following sentence: Grown on this, the size is vastly increased, the flavor and texture improved, and the low structure prevents these great fruits from being blown off, while the bud unites with the quince-stock with so great firmness, that few trees of this variety ever fracture at the graft
A shoot or twig containing buds from a living plant, used in grafting
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "graft" in the following sentence: Where it becomes desirable to preserve rare sorts, which have been grafted late in spring, a loose wrapper of white paper round the "graft" will protect it from the drying and scorching rays of the sun; or shrivelling and failure will often be prevented, by covering the graft with a thin covering of moss, or a slip of green bark, which answers all the purposes of a graft without the risk of injury from the sun
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "graft" in the following sentence: It is not usual with many, either to tie, or clay the "grafts" in this case, as the wound is placed below the surface; but when this plan is adopted, the grafts must be set * In grafting large quantities of young trees when stocks are scarce, it is customary to cut off all but a few of the buds from the upper part of the graft, leaving only one or two on the stock
A shoot or twig containing buds from a woody plant, used in grafting
An act of grafting
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "graft" in the following sentence: If, " says De Candolle, " the descending sap has only an incomplete analogy with the wants of the stock, the latter does not thrive, though the organic union may have taken place; and if the analogy between the alburnum of stock and scion is wanting, the latter will not grow at all, or will be grafted with difficulty
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "graft" in the following sentence: The "graft", thus placed, receives a /z/ large supply of the sustaining fluid from the stock, and the union is rapid; while the wound on the stock is speedily covered by a new layer of bark from that part of the scion which svanda has grafted
A shoot or twig inserted into a living plant
A graft
To unite ( a shoot or twig ) with the trunk or stem of a plant
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "graft" in the following sentence: Supposing the tree to be two or three years old from the "graft" or bud, a head must be formed at the intended height by heading it down in the spring to two or three buds or eyes in each shoot that is near the crown when the young shoots are about the size of a hazel nut
A grafting
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "graft" in the following sentence: Having made the cleft, open it by driving down the centre a narrow wedge of iron far enough to open the sides sufficient to receive the "grafts", which are prepared by cutting them in lengths about six and eight inches long cutting the bottom ends downwards, on each side of the cleft, so as to form a sharp point, which will enter the wedge with ease, and be secured in the manner hereinafter described
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "graft" in the following sentence: Most gardeners abroad, when they select trees with more than usual care, take what are called maiden plants those one year old from the "graft", and there can be no doubt that, taking into account health, duration, and the ease with which such a tree can be made to fruit, there is much to be said for this practice
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "graft" in the following sentence: Place the part of the shoot to the stock, then with a sharp knife pare off part of the branch and stock so as to make a neat splice in precisely the same manner as the whip-graft; the part united is then to be bandaged and covered as the "whip" is
A plant resulting from grafting
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "graft" in the following sentence: The effect of this difference of structure is very apparent, when the Peach is grafted on the Plum, in the greater size of the trunk above, as compared with that below the graft; a fact which seems to arise from the obstruction which the descending sap of the "grafted" tree must encounter, in its passage through the stock, by the mouths of the grafting-wounds
A shoot or twig containing buds from a living plant, used in grafting
A shoot or twig inserted as a graft
A shoot or twig inserted into a living plant
A plant resulting from grafting
A plant resulting from grafting
A grafting
A shoot or twig containing buds from a living plant, used in grafting
A shoot or twig inserted as a graft
A shoot or twig containing buds from a plant other than the rootstock, used in grafting
A shoot or twig containing buds from a living plant cut and inserted into a living plant of a different variety
A shoot or twig containing buds from a living plant, inserted into a living plant of a different variety or species
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "graft" in the following sentence: The most perfect way to fit the graft, is to make a long sloping cut from the outer edge or bark, by drawing the blade from heel to point, till it reaches the centre of the "graft"; and then another similar cut completes the acue cavity for the reception of the graft
A shoot or twig containing buds from a living plant, used in grafting
A shoot or twig containing buds from a living plant, inserted into a living stem of another plant
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "graft" in the following sentence: /z/ In the case, however, of very small trees or stocks, which are grafted below the surface of the ground, as is frequently the practice with the Apple in American nurseries, the stocks are grafted in the house in winter, or early spring, before the buds have burst
A plant resulting from grafting
A small branch or shoot inserted into a living tree at a convenient height above the ground
A detached shoot or twig containing buds from a woody plant, with the base inserted in the soil
A scion or shoot inserted into a living plant
A branch or scion of a plant, grafted onto the stem or trunk of another
A graft ( plant )
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "graft" in the following sentence: This is a part of nursery business generally too much neglected; for in many instances inoculated and grafted trees are neglected by allowing young wood to grow from the stock under and over the graft or bud, and the consequence is that the buds or "grafts" are impoverished by a deficiency of nourishment, and in many cases never become vigorous
The part of a plant which is grafted
A grafting
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "graft" in the following sentence: The ancients boasted of Vines and Apples grafted on Poplars and Elms; but repeated experiments, by the most skilful cultivators of modern times, have clearly proved that although we may, once in a thousand trials * succeed in effecting these unions, we do nothing towards the improvement of the species, and that the most inestimable fruit produced by such unions is not worth the risk of destroying the parent stock, or the trouble of grafting the buds
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "graft" in the following sentence: There are many other kinds of composition made for the purpose of covering "grafts", of which beeswax /q/ is the principal; in some instances it is the onlything used, as on small orange trees and those plants that are cleft-grafted, as quinces, service trees, & c
A wedge-shaped piece of iron used in a graft
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "graft" in the following sentence: /z/ These facts show that a bud, com- Fi s- 18 -* posed, as it is, only of bark, and of alburnum or half-formed wood, presenting a great surface of fresh material, will form a more rapid and complete union with a graft of the same age and size, than with one older or smaller
A shoot or twig containing buds from a living plant, cut and inserted into a living plant of a different variety, to be nurtured and eventually grafted
A graft
A shoot or twig inserted as a graft
A graft ( plant )
A graft ( plant ). The scion or shoot that is grafted
To insert a graft
A shoot or twig containing buds from a living plant, used in grafting
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "graft" in the following sentence: Having made the cleft, open it by driving down the centre a narrow wedge of iron far enough to open the sides sufficient to receive the grafts, which are prepared by cutting them in lengths about six and eight inches long cutting the bottom ends downwards, on each side, so as to form a tapering point, which is inserted into the cleft, and the wedge driven inwards to secure it
A thing grafted
A shoot or twig containing buds from a woody plant grafted on to another
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "graft" in the following sentence: And, fourthly, that the wounded parts made by the operation, be effectually excluded from the external air, chiefly to retain a due quantity of moisture in the graft, but also to exclude the wet, until, by the growth of the "graft", the union of the parts be compleat
A shoot or twig containing buds from a woody plant grafted onto another
A conical piece of graft tissue formed in the junction of a graft with the trunk or a branch of the host tree
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "graft" in the following sentence: But this can only be true with very small trees or seedlings, which quickly reproduce a multitude of small roots, after the top is removed for the insertion of a "graft"; or where the fibres of larger trees have been killed by exposure after removal, and which are therefore unable to supply the new graft with nourishment
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "graft" in the following sentence: The wax may be directly applied when just warm enough to run, by means of a brush; or il may be spread thickly with a brush over sheets of muslin, 01 thin, tough paper, (" post-office paper " is best,) which are afterwards, during the process of grafting, frequently renewed
A shoot or twig containing buds from a different tree, used in grafting
A splice
A graft
A detached shoot or twig containing buds from a woody plant, used in grafting
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "graft" in the following sentence: ip the stock downwards; these two tongues are united into the stock and the graft by pressing the latter downwards into the former; when the union is effected the outer bark of the "graft" and stock will precisely meet, and the splice in every way exactly fits; this is tried by cutting the bark off the stock and the graft, and the former is found to answer the latter in every respect
The scion of a plant inserted into the trunk or stem of another plant ( also called the stock ). The process of grafting is called as the operation of grafting
A shoot or twig containing buds from a living plant, inserted into a living plant of a different variety or species
A shoot or twig containing buds from a living plant, used in grafting
A grafting
A plant resulting from grafting
A detached shoot or twig containing buds from a woody plant, used in grafting
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "graft" in the following sentence: disposition, and is somewhat forgetful of qwq cealed a great deal of truth: " The setter is a product of art, as much as the Queen Claude Ilium or double rose; he is a dumb dog, grafted on the running dog, and which can not be said of many of his breed
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "graft" in the following sentence: Wherever there is an old pear tree, bearing those miserable representations of that fruit, that we see in most of our country towns, a few "grafts" of fine varieties put into its top, will in two or three years bear such specimens as can not be excelled for beauty, and flavor, and size
A shoot or twig inserted as a graft
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "graft" in the following sentence: They are also frequently cultivated for stocks, whereon to bud other roses of more rare character, which purpose they will answer very well; though a plant thus formed renders its durability uncertain, being very liable to sucker, or throw out shoots from the ground, thereby taking away nourishment from the graft
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "graft" in the following sentence: Many of them have another feature of obstinacy, and this is, that in rooting by layers, they nearly all, take two years to form rootlets; we have, in consequence, either to "graft" or bud them on other roses at any desired height, or to let them grow as suckers, and cut them off at whatever height they may arrive at in the course of two years
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "graft" in the following sentence: then, as entering the room from one door, while the girl peeped shyly in from the other, " Come hither -- hither, my flowering "graft" of a thorny crab; come hither, my peeping fawn, and learn to know your master
A slip or graft of a plant
A shoot or twig containing buds from a living plant, inserted into a living stem of another plant
A shoot or twig containing buds from a woody plant, used in grafting
A sloping side of a roof
A graft on a plant
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "graft" in the following sentence: When the graft is set, it is to be bound with bass-string, beginning at the bottom and winding it upwards in a gradual manner, When the "graft" is bandaged, it is to be covered with clay or other composition in the same manner as directed for the bandage of the "swell"
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "graft" in the following sentence: Thirdly, that the line of division between the inner bark and the wood, should coincide or exactly correspond in each; for if the inner bark of the one sets wholly on the wood of the other, the upward current through the wood and back through the bark, is broken
A shoot or twig containing buds from a living tree or other plant, inserted into a living plant of a different variety or species
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "graft" in the following sentence: more trouble and attention is required in the grafting process, to pull off sprouts from the old stock, as they spring forth to rob the "graft", than in the process itself; and this is far more the case in grafting to stocks standing in their original places, than when they are placed in a propagating bench
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "graft" in the following sentence: Where it becomes desirable to preserve rare sorts, which have been grafted late in spring, a loose wrapper of white paper round the graft will protect it from the drying and scorching rays of the sun; or shrivelling and failure will often be prevented by covering the graft with a slip of the bark of the species to which it is to be united
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "graft" in the following sentence: Hence there are two chief requisites for success: the first, that the "graft" be so set in the stock, that the sap may flow upward without interruption; and the second, that the forming wood /z/ may flow downward uninterruptedly through the inner bark to the graft
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "graft" in the following sentence: It would be more nearly correct to say, that the, duration of a variety is limited more or less by that of its original, and that any inherent disease in it will be continued, in all its buds and "grafts", although the superior vitality of the stock may for a time keep the disease in abeyance
A transplanted tissue or organ
A thing grafted or inserted
Corruption, fraud, or other deceitful behavior
A bribe or gratuity
The action of grafting a shoot or twig on to a living plant
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "graft" in the following sentence: @@297444 Where the "graft" comes sweepin'down the plain Humorist Will Rogers, Oklahoma's favorite son, once joshed a former U.S. Treasury Secretary: " Mac, knowing you was manager of Uncle Sam's Treasury so long, I'm curious to know what you think of graft? '' Will's deadpan delivery is priceless, as is the response of the flustered secretary : `` Well, Will, I think it's—uh—worse than I ever thought it was
Bribery, fraud, or other corrupt practices
Bribery and other corrupt practices in the administration of public office or in the conduct of public affairs
A transplanted organ or tissue
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "graft" in the following sentence: is the use of immunosuppressive agents, drugs that depress the immunological response long enough to tide the patient over the period during which rejection might occur and at the same time to help the "graft" to start to undergo the rather mysterious adaptative process which ends in its becoming a part of the body
To take living tissue and attach it to another part of the body or to another body entirely
Corruption or fraud, especially in the form of bribery or embezzlement
A graft or grafted plant
A living tissue or organ that is transplanted surgically
Corruption, bribery, or fraud, especially in politics or business
A bribe or kickback
Bribery or other corrupt practices used to obtain illicit advantages
Bribery, fraud, or other form of dishonesty in the conduct of business or official affairs
Bribery or other corrupt practices used to secure illicit advantages or gains in politics or business
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "graft" in the following sentence: Drugs had proven a much more dependable source of revenue than the petty "graft" he had organized in exchange for contracts for booze, food, and entertainment for the officers, sergeants, and EM clubs, and since the elimination of the old gook's drug push by the new Chinese Nationalist government, the "pork" had become even more important
Money obtained illegally, or by improper means
Bribery and other corrupt practices in the conduct of public affairs
A piece of living tissue that is transplanted surgically
A piece of living tissue that is transplanted
A graft ( as in surgery )
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "graft" in the following sentence: The Mayor's assertion came in response to a statement on Thursday by Whitman Knapp, the head of the Commission to Investigate Alleged Police Corruption, that as chief executive the Mayor " can not escape responsibility " for the widespread "graft" found among New York's 6,000-member police force
Living tissue which is transplanted from one person or species to another
A transplanted organ or tissue
A piece of gel left behind on a surface after removal of most of it
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "graft" in the following sentence: It was not very often that the little tumor "grafts" " took " and started growing right away; on the contrary the more usual thing was for the tumor first to grow and then to dwindle away to the accompaniment of a rather fierce attack by the recipient's immune system, so that in the end nothing but a scar remained to mark the spot where the graft had been inserted
A plant resulting from grafting
A piece of living tissue that is transplanted surgically
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "graft" in the following sentence: These would need to be provided with a light hoe and rake, a dibble or garden trowel, a watering-pot, and means and opportunities for securing seeds, roots, buds, and "grafts", all which might be done at a trifling expense. With such an establishment, a man might, during the summer months, not only have all his own garden wants supplied, but might also carry on a small trade, by selling such superfluous roots, & c
Bribery or other corrupt practices used to secure illicit advantages
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "graft" in the following sentence: ballast valves.... " As she went on, outlining the implants and "grafts", surgeries and mutilations needed to turn a living zaratan into an animatronic corpse, a part of her was amazed at her own presumption, amazed at the strong, confident, professional voice she was using to dictate the desecration of a dead body
A thing that is added to something else in a way that is not natural or genuine
Bribery and other corrupt practices in business or politics
A piece of living tissue that is transplanted surgically
A swindle
A bribe or gratuity
Bribery or other corrupt practices used to secure illicit advantages or gains in politics or business
Corruption, bribery, or theft
A piece of living tissue that is transplanted surgically
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "graft" in the following sentence: Machiavelli would have thoroughly approved of it all, and cited Nixon's being hounded from office because of a little "graft", a minor theft, a little destruction of evidence, as proof of his basic proposition: the people are incapable of understanding their interests on their own
A piece of living tissue that is transplanted surgically
Corruption, fraud, or embezzlement, especially in business or politics
A piece of living tissue that is transplanted to another part of the body or to another body altogether
A small blood vessel, nerve, etc., which is connected to a larger one by an anastomosis
A thing grafted or inserted
Corrupt or dishonest practice in the performance of one's work or the exercise of one's office
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "graft" in the following sentence: Further, students could practice more exotic procedures often not available in a typical residency eye operations, skin "grafts", plastic facial surgery, amputation of useless limbs, coronary surgery, etc.; they could also practice the actual removal of organs, whether they be kidneys, testicles, or hearts
A story or account, especially one that is untrue
Bribery and other corrupt practices used to secure illicit advantages
Bribery, or its proceeds
Embezzlement or theft by a public official
Corruption, bribery, or other dishonest behavior in the conduct of public affairs
A transplanted organ or tissue
A piece of living tissue that is transplanted surgically
Bribery or extortion by a public official, especially in return for preferential treatment
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "graft" in the following sentence: At the same time, they say, the chain of command from Saigon to the provinces is so ponderous, so complex, so subject to political wheeling and dealing and "graft", that generals and cabinet ministers sometimes find it nearly impossible to get an effective response to their orders
A graft union
An instance of grafting
A piece of living tissue that is transplanted surgically
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "graft" in the following sentence: Perhaps the Express did own a little of him for each of those nights he checked in and then back out to cover what was happening in the Pork Chop, that section of the city where the Negroes lived and clamored to get out of, and where most of the policemen were white and grafting, and checked in with the Express so they could get a room and a bath and a meal at the Alibi Club, across the river in Jersey
Corruption, especially when it involves the misuse of public funds
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "graft" in the following sentence: The official would take it by cupping his hand over the expediter's, he explained, then flip the, folder ever so the bill was on the bottom, finally using his other hand to slide the money from beneath the folder into a pocket or a drawer, The plan was that the expediter would then graft the money to a legitimate expense account, and submit that to the government
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "graft" in the following sentence: In outlining courses of reading for refugees, Miss Flexner tries to slip in literary antidotes for what she has discovered are the three great misconceptions about this nation: (1) that gangsters lurk on every hand, making it dangerous to venture out after dark, (2) that the average American is a grafting, money-loving citizen, and (3 ) that the country is run by the big industrial and financial combines
A graft union
A tissue graft
A piece of living tissue that is transplanted
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "graft" in the following sentence: Even though, after filling Espinosa's unfinished term as Senator, he had been endorsed by the Party to run on his own (with strong Negro and labor support, against a weak opponent, destroyed by a "graft" expose four days before the voting), and he had been elected to the State Senate by a large majority
Bribery and corruption
To commit graft
A small piece of living tissue that is transplanted to another part of the body or to another body altogether
A bribe or kickback
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "graft" in the following sentence: Builders, architects and union officials, who provided information on "graft" during a six-week investigation by The New York Times into corruption estimated to cost $25-million a year, also described a deeply ingrained system of sanctions that make corruption easy and bring trouble for anyone who refuses to pay
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "graft" in the following sentence: But limb-salvage techniques-which involve skin and vascular "grafts", placement of internal rods, and muscle-transfer procedures-are not always successful; they may take up to a dozen surgeries, and two years, before surgeons and patient give up and settle for amputation
To unite by grafting
A tissue or organ that is transplanted surgically
A tissue or organ which is transplanted
A grafting operation
Corruption, fraud, or other dishonest behaviour in business or politics
A thing grafted
Corrupt practices
Bribery and other dishonesty in the context of political or business corruption
Bribery or other dishonesty in the practice of politics or business
An instance of grafting a shoot or twig on to a living plant
A piece of tissue that is transplanted
Corruption, especially in the form of bribery
Corruption, especially among politicians
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "graft" in the following sentence: Meanwhile, Mayor Wagner renewed his demand that Mr. Lefkowitz repudiate Mr. Kenna, Mr. Wagner declared that Mr. Lefkowitz " knows what was in the State Investigation Commission's report on Kenna, and the "graft" involved
A transplanted tissue or organ
A shoot or twig containing buds from a living plant, inserted into a living stem of another plant
Money obtained dishonestly, especially by a public official
Corruption, fraud, or embezzlement in the form of bribery
Bribery
Political corruption, bribery, or embezzlement
