osculate : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: osculate	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for osculate
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
osculate v be intermediate between two taxonomic groups; "These species osculate" have at least three points in common with; "one curve osculates the other"; "these two surfaces osculate" touch with the lips or press the lips (against someone's mouth or other body part) as an expression of love, greeting, etc.; "The newly married couple kissed"; "She kissed her grandfather on the forehead when she entered the room" Synonym(s): snog, kiss, buss, osculate
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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}.] 1. To kiss. 2. (Geom.) To touch closely, so as to have a common curvature at the point of contact. See {Osculation}, 2.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Osculate \Os"cu*late\, v. i. 1. To kiss one another; to kiss. 2. (Geom.) To touch closely. See {Osculation}, 2. 3. (Biol.) To have characters in common with two genera or families, so as to form a connecting link between them; to interosculate. See {Osculant}.