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- English Word Osculate Definition To kiss.
- English Word Osculate Definition To touch closely, so as to have a common curvature at the point of contact. See Osculation, 2.
- English Word Osculate Definition To kiss one another; to kiss.
- English Word Osculate Definition To touch closely. See Osculation, 2.
- English Word Osculate Definition To have characters in common with two genera or families, so as to form a connecting link between them; to interosculate. See Osculant.
- English Word Osculated Definition of Osculate
- English Word Osculating Definition of Osculate
- English Word Osculation Definition The act of kissing; a kiss.
- English Word Osculation Definition 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.
- English Word Osculatory Definition Of or pertaining to kissing; kissing.
- English Word Osculatory Definition 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.
- English Word Osculatory Definition Same as Pax, 2.
- English Word Osculatrix Definition 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.
- English Word Osculatrixes Definition of Osculatrix
- English Word Oscule Definition One of the excurrent apertures of sponges.
- English Word Osculum Definition Same as Oscule.
- English Word Osier Definition A kind of willow (Salix viminalis) growing in wet places in Europe and Asia, and introduced into North America. It is considered the best of the willows for basket work. The name is sometimes given to any kind of willow.
- English Word Osier Definition One of the long, pliable twigs of this plant, or of other similar plants.
- English Word Osier Definition Made of osiers; composed of, or containing, osiers.
- English Word Osiered Definition Covered or adorned with osiers; as, osiered banks.
- English Word Osiery Definition An osier bed.
- English Word Osiris Definition One of the principal divinities of Egypt, the brother and husband of Isis. He was figured as a mummy wearing the royal cap of Upper Egypt, and was symbolized by the sacred bull, called Apis. Cf. Serapis.
- English Word Osmanli Definition A Turkish official; one of the dominant tribe of Turks; loosely, any Turk.
- English Word Osmanlis Definition of Osmanli
- English Word Osmate Definition A salt of osmic acid.
- English Word Osmateria Definition of Osmaterium
- English Word Osmaterium Definition One of a pair of scent organs which the larvae of certain butterflies emit from the first body segment, either above or below.
- English Word Osmazome Definition A substance formerly supposed to give to soup and broth their characteristic odor, and probably consisting of one or several of the class of nitrogenous substances which are called extractives.
- English Word Osmiamate Definition A salt of osmiamic acid.
- English Word Osmiamic Definition Of, pertaining to, or designating, a nitrogenous acid of osmium, H2N2Os2O5, forming a well-known series of yellow salts.