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Webster 1913 Edition

Inoculate

In-oc′u-late

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Inoculated
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Inoculating
.]
[L.
inoculatus
, p. p. of
inoculare
to ingraft; pref.
in-
in, on +
oculare
to furnish with eyes, fr.
oculus
an eye, also, a bud. See
Ocular
.]
1.
To bud; to insert, or graft, as the bud of a tree or plant in another tree or plant.
2.
To insert a foreign bud into;
as, to
inoculate
a tree
.
4.
Fig.: To introduce into the mind; – used especially of harmful ideas or principles; to imbue;
as, to
inoculate
one with treason or infidelity
.

In-oc′u-late

,
Verb.
I.
1.
To graft by inserting buds.
2.
To communicate disease by inoculation.

Webster 1828 Edition

Inoculate

INOC'ULATE

,
Verb.
T.
[L. inoculo; in and occulus, the eye.]
1.
To bud; to insert the bud of a tree or plant in another tree or plant, for the purpose of growth on the new stock. All sorts of stone fruit, apples,pears, &c. may be inoculated. We inoculate the stock with a foreign bud.
2.
To communicate a disease to a person by inserting infectious matter in his skin or flesh; as, to inoculate a person with the matter of small pox or cow pox. When the latter disease is communicated, it is called vaccination.

INOC'ULATE

,
Verb.
I.
To propagate by budding; to practice inoculation. The time to inoculate is when the buds are formed at the extremities of the same year's shoot, indicating that the spring growth for that season is complete.

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