graft vs mull

graft

verb
  • To work hard. 

  • 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 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. 

noun
  • 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 narrow spade used in digging drainage trenches. 

  • 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. 

mull

verb
  • To work (over) mentally; to cogitate; to ruminate. 

  • To chop marijuana so that it becomes a smokable form. 

  • To dull or stupefy. 

  • To powder; to pulverize. 

  • To heat and spice something, such as wine. 

  • To join two or more individual windows at mullions. 

noun
  • An inferior kind of madder prepared from the smaller roots or the peelings and refuse of the larger. 

  • A stew of meat, broth, milk, butter, vegetables, and seasonings, thickened with soda crackers. 

  • dirt; rubbish 

  • A thin, soft muslin. 

  • A promontory. 

  • A snuffbox made of the small end of a horn. 

  • The gauze used in bookbinding to adhere a text block to a book's cover. 

  • Marijuana that has been chopped to prepare it for smoking. 

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