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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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