Word Meanings - MISGRAFT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To graft wrongly.

GRAFTAGE
The science of grafting, including the various methods of practice and details of operation.
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.
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
WRONGLY
In a wrong manner; unjustly; erroneously; wrong; amiss; as, he judges wrongly of my motives. "And yet wouldst wrongly win." Shak.
CLEFTGRAFT
To ingraft by cleaving the stock and inserting a scion. Mortimer.
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
INGRAFT
1. To insert, as a scion of one tree, shrub, or plant in another for propagation; as, to ingraft a peach scion on a plum tree; figuratively, to insert or introduce in such a way as to make a part of something. This fellow would ingraft a foreign