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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) |
graft
n 1: (surgery) tissue or organ transplanted from a donor to a
recipient; in some cases the patient can be both donor and
recipient [syn: graft, transplant]
2: the practice of offering something (usually money) in order
to gain an illicit advantage [syn: bribery, graft]
3: the act of grafting something onto something else [syn:
graft, grafting]
v 1: cause to grow together parts from different plants; "graft
the cherry tree branch onto the plum tree" [syn: graft,
engraft, ingraft]
2: place the organ of a donor into the body of a recipient [syn:
transplant, graft]
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Graft \Graft\, n. [OE. graff, F. greffe, originally the same
word as OF. grafe pencil, L. graphium, Gr. ?, ?, fr. ? to
write; prob. akin to E. carve. So named from the resemblance
of a scion or shoot to a pointed pencil. Cf. Graphic,
Grammar.]
(a) 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.
(b) A branch or portion of a tree growing from such a
shoot.
(c) (Surg.) A portion of living tissue used in the
operation of autoplasty.
[1913 Webster]
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Graft \Graft\, n. [Prob. orig. so called because illegitimate or
improper profit was looked upon as a graft, or sort of
excrescence, on a legitimate business undertaking, in
distinction from its natural proper development.]
1. Acquisition of money, position, etc., by dishonest or
unjust means, as by actual theft or by taking advantage of
a public office or any position of trust or employment to
obtain fees, perquisites, profits on contracts,
legislation, pay for work not done or service not
performed, etc.; illegal or unfair practice for profit or
personal advantage; also, anything thus gained. [Colloq.]
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
2. A "soft thing" or "easy thing;" a "snap." [Slang]
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
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4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Graft \Graft\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Grafted; p. pr. & vb. n.
Grafting.] [F. greffer. See Graft, n.]
1. 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. [Formerly written graff.]
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2. (Surg.) To implant a portion of (living flesh or akin) in
a lesion so as to form an organic union.
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3. To join (one thing) to another as if by grafting, so as to
bring about a close union.
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And graft my love immortal on thy fame ! --Pope.
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4. (Naut.) To cover, as a ring bolt, block strap, splicing,
etc., with a weaving of small cord or rope-yarns.
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5. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Graft \Graft\, v. i.
To insert scions from one tree, or kind of tree, etc., into
another; to practice grafting.
[1913 Webster]
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6. Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary |
Graft
the process of inoculating fruit-trees (Rom. 11:17-24). It is
peculiarly appropriate to olive-trees. The union thus of
branches to a stem is used to illustrate the union of true
believers to the true Church.
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7. Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) |
GRAFT. A figurative term in chancery practice, to designate the right of a
mortgagee in premises, to which the mortgagor at the time of making the
mortgage had an imperfect title, but who afterwards obtained a good title.
In this case the new mortgage is considered a graft into the old stock, and,
as arising in consideration of the former title. 1 Ball & Beat. 46; Id. 40;
Id. 57; 1 Pow. on Mortg. 190. See 9 Mass. 34. The same principle has
obtained by legislative enactment in Louisiana. If a person contracting an
obligation towards another, says the Civil Code, art. 2371, grants a
mortgage on property of which he is not then the owner, this mortgage shall
be valid, if the debtor should ever acquire the ownership of, the property,
by whatever right.
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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 |
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