Word Meanings - GRAFTAGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The science of grafting, including the various methods of practice and details of operation.

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• GRAFTAGE
  The science of grafting, including the various methods of practice and details of operation.
• PRACTICER
  1. One who practices, or puts in practice; one who customarily performs certain acts. South. 2. One who exercises a profession; a practitioner. 3. One who uses art or stratagem. B. Jonson.
• PRACTICED
  1. Experienced; expert; skilled; as, a practiced marksman. "A practiced picklock." Ld. Lytton. 2. Used habitually; learned by practice.
• INCLUDED
  Inclosed; confined. Included stamens , such as are shorter than the floral envelopes, or are concealed within them.
• OPERATION
  Something to be done; some transformation to be made upon quantities, the transformation being indicated either by rules or symbols. (more info) 1. The act or process of operating; agency; the exertion of power, physical, mechanical, or moral.
• PRACTICE
  A easy and concise method of applying the rules of arithmetic to questions which occur in trade and business. (more info) also, practique, LL. practica, fr. Gr. Practical, and cf. Pratique, 1. Frequently repeated or customary action;
• 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.
• VARIOUS
  1. Different; diverse; several; manifold; as, men of various names; various occupations; various colors. So many and so various laws are given. Milton. A wit as various, gay, grave, sage, or wild. Byron. 2. Changeable; uncertain; inconstant;
• VARIOUSLY
  In various or different ways.
• GRAFTING
  The act or method of weaving a cover for a ring, rope end, etc.
• 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
• INCLUDE
  1. To confine within; to hold; to contain; to shut up; to inclose; as, the shell of a nut includes the kernel; a pearl is included in a shell. 2. To comprehend or comprise, as a genus the species, the whole a part, an argument or reason
• INCLUDIBLE
  Capable of being included.
• SCIENCE
  1. Knowledge; lnowledge of principles and causes; ascertained truth of facts. If we conceive God's or science, before the creation, to be extended to all and every part of the world, seeing everything as it is, . . . his science or sight from all
• CLEFTGRAFT
  To ingraft by cleaving the stock and inserting a scion. Mortimer.
• IMPROPERATION
  The act of upbraiding or taunting; a reproach; a taunt. Improperatios and terms of scurrility. Sir T. Browne
• PRESCIENCE
  Knowledge of events before they take place; foresight. God's certain prescience of the volitions of moral agents. J. Edwards.
• OMNISCIENCE
  The quality or state of being omniscient; -- an attribute peculiar to God. Dryden.
• UNSCIENCE
  Want of science or knowledge; ignorance. If that any wight ween a thing to be otherwise than it is, it is not only unscience, but it is deceivable opinion. Chaucer.
• CONSCIENCE
  consciens, p.pr. of conscire to know, to be conscious; con- + scire 1. Knowledge of one's own thoughts or actions; consciousness. The sweetest cordial we receive, at last, Is conscience of our virtuous actions past. Denham. 2. The faculty, power,
• INGRAFTER
  A person who ingrafts.
• CONSCIENCED
  Having a conscience. "Soft-conscienced men." Shak.
• OVARIOUS
  Consisting of eggs; as, ovarious food. Thomson.
• MALPRACTICE
  Evil practice; illegal or immoral conduct; practice contrary to established rules; specifically, the treatment of a case by a surgeon or physician in a manner which is contrary to accepted rules and productive of unfavorable results.
• NESCIENCE
  Want of knowledge; ignorance; agnosticism. God fetched it about for me, in that absence and nescience of mine. Bp. Hall.
• REGRAFT
  To graft again.
• WHIPGRAFT
  To graft by cutting the scion and stock in a certain manner. See Whip grafting, under Grafting.