ineyeing

Verb

ineye (third-person singular simple present ineyes, present participle ineyeing or (rare) ineying, simple past and past participle ineyed)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To innoculate or bud; ingraft or propagate (as a tree or plant) by the insertion of a bud.
   • 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.1768, John Gibson, The Fruit-gardener