OSCULATES

Verb

osculates

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of osculate

Anagrams

• cassoulet, lost cause, scaleouts, scales out

Source: Wiktionary


OSCULATE

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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