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

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..

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

Osculate :: Osculate (v. t.) To kiss.

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

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

Inosculate :: Inosculate (v. t.) To unite intimately; to cause to become as one.

Interosculate :: Interosculate (v. i. & t.) To have the character of, or to lie between, two distinct groups..

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..

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

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

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

Inosculated :: Inosculated (imp. & p. p.) of Inosculat.

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

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..

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..

Floscularian :: Floscularian (n.) One of a group of stalked rotifers, having ciliated tentacles around the lobed disk..

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

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

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