A bony substance that covers the root of a tooth; cement.
A narrow spade used in digging drainage trenches.
A cut of the take (money).
A job or trade.
A criminal’s special branch of practice.
A portion of living tissue used in the operation of autoplasty.
A con job.
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.
The depth of the blade of a digging tool such as a spade or shovel.
A branch or portion of a tree growing from such a shoot.
Illicit profit by corrupt means, especially in public life.
Corruption in official life.
A bribe, especially on an ongoing basis.
Work; labor requiring effort.
To cover, as a ring bolt, block strap, splicing, etc., with a weaving of small cord or rope yarns.
To form a graft polymer
To insert scions (grafts) from one tree, or kind of tree, etc., into another; to practice grafting.
To work hard.
To implant a portion of (living flesh or akin) in a lesion so as to form an organic union.
To join (one thing) to another as if by grafting, so as to bring about a close union.
To obtain illegal gain from bribery or similar corrupt practices.
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.