ineye
English
Etymology
From Middle English *ineyen, eneien, eneyen, equivalent to in- + eye.
Verb
ineye (third-person singular simple present ineyes, present participle ineyeing or ineying, simple past and past participle ineyed)
- (transitive, obsolete) To innoculate or bud; ingraft or propagate (as a tree or plant) by the insertion of a bud.
- 1768, John Gibson, The Fruit-gardener:
- 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.
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