Vocabulary : Osculate to Osier

Osculate : To kiss. ;; To touch closely, so as to have a common curvature at the point of contact. See Osculation, 2. ;; To kiss one another; to kiss. ;; To touch closely. See Osculation, 2. ;; To have characters in common with two genera or families, so as to form a connecting link between them; to interosculate. See Osculant.
Osculated : of Osculate
Osculating : of Osculate
Osculation : The act of kissing; a kiss. ;; 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.
Osculatory : Of or pertaining to kissing; kissing. ;; 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. ;; Same as Pax, 2.

Osculatrix : 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.
Osculatrixes : of Osculatrix
Oscule : One of the excurrent apertures of sponges.
Osculum : Same as Oscule.
Osier : 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. ;; One of the long, pliable twigs of this plant, or of other similar plants. ;; Made of osiers; composed of, or containing, osiers.

Next : Osiered, Osiery, Osiris, Osmanli, Osmanlis, Osmate, Osmateria, Osmaterium, Osmazome, Osmiamate
Previous : Oscines, Oscinian, Oscinine, Oscitancy, Oscitant, Oscitantly, Oscitate, Oscitation, Oscula, Osculant
Index : Sanjeev.NET : Vocabulary