Inoculate

in-ok′ū-lāt, v.t. to insert a bud for propagation: to engraft: to communicate disease by inserting matter in the skin.— v.i. to propagate by budding: to practise inoculation.— adj. Inoc′ulable .— n. Inoculā′tion , act or practice of inoculating: insertion of the buds of one plant into another: the communication of disease to a healthy subject by the introduction of a specific germ or animal poison into his system by puncture or otherwise.— adjs. Inoculā′tive , Inoculā′tory .— n. Inoc′ulator . [L. inoculāre , -ātum — in , into, oculus , an eye.]