INGR'AFT, verb transitive [in and graff. The original word is ingraff or graff, but it is corrupted beyond recovery.] 1. To insert a cion of one tree or plant into another for propagation; as, to ingraft the cion of an apple-tree on a pear-tree, as its stock; to ingraft a peach on a plum. 2. To propagate by incision. 3. To plant or introduce something foreign into that which is native, for the purpose of propagation. This fellow would ingraft a foreign name Upon our stock. 4. To set or fix deep and firm. Ingrafted love he bears to Caesar.
Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary ↗ · public-domain · returned verbatim, no AI