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)

1. (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.