graffing

French fashion of imping, which the Southron call graffing.

The Abbot 2008

You monks and friars of the cowl-pated and hood-polled fraternity, have you no remedy nor salve against this malady of graffing horns in heads?

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

You monks and friars of the cowl-pated and hood-polled fraternity, have you no remedy nor salve against this malady of graffing horns in heads?

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

The first is, that the greater part of women, whatever be that they see, do always represent unto their fancies, think, and imagine, that it hath some relation to the sugared entering of the goodly ithyphallos, and graffing in the cleft of the overturned tree the quickset imp of the pin of copulation.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

The first is, that the greater part of women, whatever be that they see, do always represent unto their fancies, think, and imagine, that it hath some relation to the sugared entering of the goodly ithyphallos, and graffing in the cleft of the overturned tree the quickset imp of the pin of copulation.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

The plant has been long naturalised in England, and was known here in Shakespeare's time, who mentions it in the second part of _Henry IV_. thus: "Come, cousin Silence! we will eat a pippin of last year's graffing, with a dish of Caraways; and then to bed!"

Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

Nay, you shall see mine orchard, where, in an arbour, we will eat a last year’s pippin of my own graffing, with a dish of caraways, and so forth; come, cousin Silence; and then to bed.

Act V. Scene III. The Second Part of King Henry the Fourth 1914

Nay, you shall see my orchard, where, in an arbour, we will eat a last year's Pippin of my own graffing, with a dish of

The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare Henry Nicholson Ellacombe 1868

I was ordered on deck, and set to work graffing ring-bolts for the guns.

Ned Myers or, a Life Before the Mast James Fenimore Cooper 1820

The season for planting is January, and all February, though some not till Mid-February, at two foot square; but cattle being excessively liquorish of their leaves and tender buds, some talk of a graffing them out of reach upon sallows, and by this, to advance their sprouting; but as the work would consume time, so have I never seen it succeed.

Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or A Discourse of Forest Trees John Evelyn 1663