Ineye

verb

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Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To innoculate or bud; ingraft or propagate (as a tree or plant) by the insertion of a bud. obsolete, transitive

    "One would be almost here tempted to believe, that Theophrastus means grafting, were it not for the climate of Attica, which may possibly have favourted the above practice of ineyeing."

Example

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"One would be almost here tempted to believe, that Theophrastus means grafting, were it not for the climate of Attica, which may possibly have favourted the above practice of ineyeing."

Etymology

From Middle English *ineyen, eneien, eneyen, equivalent to in- + eye.

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