overruleth the stock; and the stock is but passive, and giveth aliment, but no motion, to the graft.
Bacon.
Webster 1828 Edition
Cion
CION
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Noun.
A young shoot, twig or sprout of a tree, or plant, or rather the cutting of a twig, intended for ingrafting on another stock; also, the shoot or slip inserted in a stock for propagation.