(n.) A branch or portion of a tree growing from such a shoot.
(n.) A portion of living tissue used in the operation of autoplasty.
(n.) 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.
(n.) To cover, as a ring bolt, block strap, splicing, etc., with a weaving of small cord or rope-yarns.
(n.) To implant a portion of (living flesh or akin) in a lesion so as to form an organic union.
(n.) To insert (a graft) in a branch or stem of another tree; to propagate by insertion in another stock; also, to insert a graft upon.
(n.) To join (one thing) to another as if by grafting, so as to bring about a close union.
(v. i.) To insert scions from one tree, or kind of tree, etc., into another; to practice grafting.