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Osculant :: Osculant (a.) Adhering closely; embracing; -- applied to certain creeping animals, as caterpillars..

Osculate :: Osculate (v. t.) To touch closely, so as to have a common curvature at the point of contact. See Osculation, 2..

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

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..

Adosculation :: Adosculation (n.) Impregnation by external contact, without intromission..

Oscula :: Oscula (pl. ) of Osculu.

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

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

Osculant :: Osculant (a.) Intermediate in character, or on the border, between two genera, groups, families, etc., of animals or plants, and partaking somewhat of the characters of each, thus forming a connecting link; interosculant; as, the genera by which two families approximate are called osculant genera..

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

Osculatory :: Osculatory (a.) Pertaining to, or having the properties of, an osculatrix; capable of osculation; as, a circle may be osculatory with a curve, at a given point..

Inosculate :: Inosculate (v. i.) To unite by apposition or contact, as two tubular vessels at their extremities; to anastomose..

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

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

Inosculating :: Inosculating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Inosculat.

Osculatrixes :: Osculatrixes (pl. ) of Osculatri.

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

Inosculation :: Inosculation (n.) The junction or connection of vessels, channels, or passages, so that their contents pass from one to the other; union by mouths or ducts; anastomosis; intercommunication; as, inosculation of veins, etc..

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..

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

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