noun. Deceitful or fraudulent use of one's position, especially in public office, to obtain personal profits or advantages.

noun. Money or advantage obtained by such means.

intransitive verb. To gain money or advantage through deceit or fraud.

intransitive verb. undefined

intransitive verb. To unite (a shoot or bud) with a growing plant by insertion or by placing in close contact.

intransitive verb. To join (a plant or plants) by such union.

intransitive verb. To transplant or implant (living tissue, for example) surgically into a bodily part to replace a damaged part or compensate for a defect.

intransitive verb. To join or unite closely.

intransitive verb. To make a graft.

intransitive verb. To be or become joined.

noun. undefined

noun. A detached shoot or bud united or to be united with a growing plant.

noun. The union or point of union of a detached shoot or bud with a growing plant by insertion or attachment.

noun. A plant produced by such union.

noun. undefined

noun. Material, especially living tissue or an organ, surgically attached to or inserted into a bodily part to replace a damaged part or compensate for a defect.

noun. The procedure of implanting or transplanting such material.

noun. The configuration or condition resulting from such a procedure.

noun. Same as graff, 2.

noun. A small shoot or scion of a tree inserted in another tree as the stock which is to support and nourish it. The graft and stock unite and become one tree, but the graft determines the kind of fruit. See grafting

noun. Figuratively, something inserted in or incorporated with another thing to which it did not originally belong; an extraneous addition.

noun. Specifically In surgery, a portion of living tissue, as a minute bit of skin, cut from some part of an animal or person and implanted to grow upon some other individual or some other part of the same individual.

noun. Work; labor.

noun. A job or a trade.

To work.

To insert, as a scion or graft, or a scion or graft of, into a different stock, for joint growth: as, to graft a slip from one tree into another; to graft the pear upon the quince. See grafting

To fix a graft or grafts upon; treat by the operation of grafting.

Hence To insert into or incorporate with something else; fix upon something as a basis or support: as, to graft a pagan custom upon Christian institutions.

In surgery, to implant for growth in a different place, as a piece of skin.

Nautical, to weave over with fine lines in an ornamental manner, as a block-strap, ring-bolt, etc.

To insert scions from one tree, or kind of tree, into another.

To engage in graft; live by graft. See graft, n., and compare quotation from Farmer under graft, intransitive verb

noun. l. The depth of a spade in digging; the amount of earth turned up in one turn of the spade.

noun. A narrow crescent-shaped spade, used in cutting drains.

noun. Dishonest gain acquired by private or secret practices or corrupt agreement or connivance, especially in positions of trust, as by offering or accepting bribes (directly or in the veiled form of commissions, fees, gifts, or philanthropic contributions), or by promising or using, directly or indirectly, one's official influence or power to assist or protect wrongdoing, or by levying blackmail—all in a private way and often disguised so as to seem the customary and proper course of business.

noun. A business, process, place of concourse, or office, in or at which dishonest gain, by corruption or direct thieving, may be acquired.

noun. 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.

noun. A branch or portion of a tree growing from such a shoot.

noun. A portion of living tissue used in the operation of autoplasty.

noun. 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.

noun. A “soft thing” or “easy thing;” a “snap.”

intransitive verb. To insert scions from one tree, or kind of tree, etc., into another; to practice grafting.

transitive verb. 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.

transitive verb. To implant a portion of (living flesh or akin) in a lesion so as to form an organic union.

transitive verb. To join (one thing) to another as if by grafting, so as to bring about a close union.

transitive verb. To cover, as a ring bolt, block strap, splicing, etc., with a weaving of small cord or rope-yarns.

noun. 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.

noun. A branch or portion of a tree growing from such a shoot.

noun. A portion of living tissue used in the operation of autoplasty.

noun. Effort needed for doing hard work.

""Pardon me, but is that what you call a graft investigation that you are making, Miss Hamlin?" inquired Baskinelli."

animal graft  autoplastic graft  gain  grafted bow  heteroplastic graft  

grafted  grafting  

affixation  attachment  conjoin  enter  infix  

Taft  aft  craft  daft  draft  

blackmail  bribe  bribery  corruption  embezzlement  

abstraction  affix  anchor  annex  annexation  

graff  

grafted  grafting  grafts