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21osculate — v.i. make contact; coincide; jocular, kiss. ♦ osculant, ♦ osculatory, ♦ oscular, a. pertaining to mouth or kissing. ♦ osculation n …
22osculate — see ORAL …
23osculate — v. 1 tr. Math. (of a curve or surface) have contact of at least the second order with; have two branches with a common tangent, with each branch extending in both directions of the tangent. 2 v.intr. & tr. joc. kiss. 3 intr. Biol. (of a species… …
24oscillate, osculate — Oscillate means to swing to and fro, to vibrate, to fluctuate : His mood oscillated between despair and fury. Osculate means to come into close contact and specifically to kiss. It is possible that one who osculates a loved one will begin to… …
25Osculated — Osculate Os cu*late, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Osculated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Osculating}.] [L. osculatus, p. p. of osculari to kiss, fr. osculum a little mouth, a kiss, dim. of os mouth. See {Oral}, and cf. {Oscillate}.] [1913 Webster] 1. To kiss.… …
26Osculating — Osculate Os cu*late, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Osculated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Osculating}.] [L. osculatus, p. p. of osculari to kiss, fr. osculum a little mouth, a kiss, dim. of os mouth. See {Oral}, and cf. {Oscillate}.] [1913 Webster] 1. To kiss.… …
27kiss — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. smack, osculation, caress, merest touch. See endearment. v. caress, osculate; brush [lightly], touch, graze. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. salutation, embrace, salute, endearment, osculation, touch of the… …
28oral — [17] Oral comes from Latin ōs ‘mouth’. This went back to a prehistoric Indo European *ōs or *ōus , which also produced Sanskrit ās , ‘mouth’ and Old Norse óss ‘mouth of a river’. Its other contributions to English include orifice [16]… …
29osculation — kissing, a kiss, 1650s, from L. osculationem, noun of action from osculari (see OSCULATE (Cf. osculate)) …
30in — in·earth; in·ebri·a·tion; in·ebri·ety; in·ebri·ous; in·edible; in·ed·i·ta; in·edited; in·educabilia; in·educability; in·educable; in·education; in·ef·fa·bil·i·ty; in·ef·face·abil·i·ty; in·effaceable; in·effectuality; in·efficacious;… …
