Definitions for the word "graft" from multiple English dictionaries.
1. 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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. n.
A branch or portion of a tree growing from such a shoot.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. n.
A portion of living tissue used in the operation of autoplasty.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. 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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. n.
To implant a portion of (living flesh or akin) in a lesion so as to form an organic union.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. n.
To join (one thing) to another as if by grafting, so as to bring about a close union.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. n.
To cover, as a ring bolt, block strap, splicing, etc., with a weaving of small cord or rope-yarns.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
8. v. i.
To insert scions from one tree, or kind of tree, etc., into another; to practice grafting.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
9. n.
1 bot. A shoot or scion inserted into a slit of stock, from which it receives sap. B place where a graft is inserted. 2 surgery piece of living tissue, organ, etc., transplanted surgically. 3 slang hard work. v. 1 (often foll. By into, on, together, etc.) Insert (a scion) as a graft. 2 transplant (living tissue). 3 (foll. By in, on) insert or fix (a thing) permanently to another. 4 slang work hard. [greek graphion stylus]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
10. colloq.
n. 1 practices, esp. Bribery, used to secure illicit gains in politics or business. 2 such gains. v. Seek or make such gains. [origin unknown]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
11. slang
work; “where are you GRAFTING?” _i.e._, where do you work?
“What GRAFT are you at?” what are you doing? Perhaps derived from
gardening phraseology; or a variation of _craft_.
Source: The Slang Dictionary, 1864
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