Inoculate

1. v. i. To communicate disease by inoculation.
2. v. t. To bud; to insert, or graft, as the bud of a tree or plant in another tree or plant.
3. v. t. To insert a foreign bud into; as, to inoculate a tree.
4. v. t. To communicate a disease to ( a person ) by inserting infectious matter in the skin or flesh; as, to inoculate a person with the virus of smallpox,rabies, etc. See Vaccinate.
5. v. t. Fig.: To introduce into the mind; — used especially of harmful ideas or principles; to imbue; as, to inoculate one with treason or infidelity.
6. v. i. To graft by inserting buds.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.