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Graft   /græft/   Listen
Graft

noun
1.
(surgery) tissue or organ transplanted from a donor to a recipient; in some cases the patient can be both donor and recipient.  Synonym: transplant.
2.
The practice of offering something (usually money) in order to gain an illicit advantage.  Synonym: bribery.
3.
The act of grafting something onto something else.  Synonym: grafting.
verb
(past & past part. grafted; pres. part. grafting)
1.
Cause to grow together parts from different plants.  Synonyms: engraft, ingraft.
2.
Place the organ of a donor into the body of a recipient.  Synonym: transplant.



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"Graft" Quotes from Famous Books



... growing, too, upon his own land; but were, however surprized to find it upon level ground, after we had been told it grew only upon the north side of Stony Mountains. I carried home this treasure with as much joy as if every root had been a graft of the Tree of Life, and washed and dried it carefully. This airing made us as hungry as so many hawks, so that between appetite and a very good dinner, 'twas difficult to eat like a philosopher. In the afternoon the ladies walked ...
— The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IX (of X) - America - I • Various

... experienced the disappointment and demoralization of camp life. The letters written by many of these soldiers show that they did not falter at active campaigning. The prospect, however, of remaining in camp with insufficient rations, and (to use a modern expressive word) graft on every hand, completely disheartened and disgusted many of them. Many having influence with members of Congress, contrived to get discharges; others lacking this influence deserted. To fill the constantly diminishing ranks caused by deaths, ...
— Great Fortunes from Railroads • Gustavus Myers

... "More professional graft," complained Ted. He was only joking but Tony with her sharpened sight knew that it was thin ice for Larry and suspected he had non-professional reasons for wanting Ruth alone in the canoe with him that night. Poor Larry! It was all a horrible tangle, just as her affair ...
— Wild Wings - A Romance of Youth • Margaret Rebecca Piper

... career he had many opportunities to make a great deal of money by allying himself with crooked, sneaking, unscrupulous politicians. He had all sorts of opportunities for political graft. But crookedness never had any attraction for him. He refused to be a party to any political jobbery, any underhand business. He preferred to lose any position he was seeking, to let somebody else have it, if he must get smirched in the getting it. He ...
— Pushing to the Front • Orison Swett Marden

... biggest producer in the country, the beef folk in Chicago 'll beat you down to their price, and the automobile folk will cut the ground clear from under your horses' feet. You won't hit Congress, because you won't have the dollars to buy your graft with. Then, when you're left with nothing to round-up but a bunch of gophers, the government will come along and have you ...
— The One-Way Trail - A story of the cattle country • Ridgwell Cullum


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