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Osculatory :: Osculatory (a.) Of or pertaining to kissing; kissing.

Interosculant :: Interosculant (a.) Uniting two groups; -- said of certain genera which connect family groups, or of species that connect genera. See Osculant..

Anastomose :: Anastomose (v. i.) To inosculate; to intercommunicate by anastomosis, as the arteries and veins..

Osculatory :: Osculatory (n.) Same as Pax, 2..

Osculate :: Osculate (v. i.) To touch closely. See Osculation, 2..

Inosculate :: Inosculate (v. i.) To intercommunicate; to interjoin.

Osculant :: Osculant (a.) Kissing; hence, meeting; clinging..

Umbilicus :: Umbilicus (n.) A point of a surface at which the curvatures of the normal sections are all equal to each other. A sphere may be osculatory to the surface in every direction at an umbilicus. Called also umbilic.

Osculation :: Osculation (n.) The contact of one curve with another, when the number of consecutive points of the latter through which the former passes suffices for the complete determination of the former curve..

Interosculate :: Interosculate (v. i. & t.) To kiss together to touch. See Osculate.

Osculate :: Osculate (v. i.) To kiss one another; to kiss.

Osculation :: Osculation (n.) The act of kissing; a kiss.

Pax :: Pax (n.) A tablet or board, on which is a representation of Christ, of the Virgin Mary, or of some saint and which, in the Mass, was kissed by the priest and then by the people, in mediaeval times; an osculatory. It is still used in communities, confraternities, etc..

Deosculate :: Deosculate (v. t.) To kiss warmly.

Interosculant :: Interosculant (a.) Mutually touching or intersecting; as, interosculant circles..

Exosculate :: Exosculate (v. t.) To kiss; especially, to kiss repeatedly or fondly..

Floscular :: Floscular (a.) Flosculous.

Osculating :: Osculating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Osculat.

Osculated :: Osculated (imp. & p. p.) of Osculat.

Osculatrix :: Osculatrix (n.) A curve whose contact with a given curve, at a given point, is of a higher order (or involves the equality of a greater number of successive differential coefficients of the ordinates of the curves taken at that point) than that of any other curve of the same kind..

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