OSCULATE

snog, kiss, buss, osculate

(verb) touch with the lips or press the lips (against someone’s mouth or other body part) as an expression of love, greeting, etc.; “The newly married couple kissed”; “She kissed her grandfather on the forehead when she entered the room”

osculate

(verb) have at least three points in common with; “one curve osculates the other”; “these two surfaces osculate”

osculate

(verb) be intermediate between two taxonomic groups; “These species osculate”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Verb

osculate (third-person singular simple present osculates, present participle osculating, simple past and past participle osculated)

(transitive) To kiss someone or something.

(mathematics) To touch so as to have a common tangent at the point of contact.

(intransitive) To make contact.

(Vedic arithmetic) To perform osculation.

To form a connecting link between two genera.

Adjective

osculate (not comparable)

Relating to kissing.

Anagrams

• lacteous, locustae, scale out, scaleout

Source: Wiktionary


Os"cu*late, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Osculated; p. pr. & vb. n. Osculating.] Etym: [L. osculatus, p. p. of osculari to kiss, fr. osculum a little mouth, a kiss, dim. of os mouth. See Oral, and cf. Oscillate.]

1. To kiss.

2. (Geom.)

Definition: To touch closely, so as to have a common curvature at the point of contact. See Osculation, 2.

Os"cu*late, v. i.

1. To kiss one another; to kiss.

2. (Geom.)

Definition: To touch closely. See Osculation, 2.

3. (Biol.)

Definition: To have characters in common with two genera or families, so as to form a connecting link between them; to interosculate. See Osculant.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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