3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Ablactation  \Ab`lac*ta"tion\  n. 
  1.  The  weaning  of  a  child  from  the  breast,  or  of  young  beasts 
  from  their  dam.  --Blount. 
 
  2.  (Hort.)  The  process  of  grafting  now  called  {inarching},  or 
  {grafting  by  approach}. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Inarch  \In*arch"\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Inarched};  p.  pr  &  vb 
  n.  {Inarching}.] 
  To  graft  by  uniting,  as  a  scion,  to  a  stock,  without 
  separating  either  from  its  root  before  the  union  is  complete; 
  --  also  called  to  {graft  by  approach}.  --P.  Miler. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Inarching  \In*arch"ing\,  n. 
  A  method  of  ingrafting.  See  {Inarch}. 

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