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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

blow a kiss, brush, brush by, bus, buss, caress, come in contact, contact, glance, graze, hit, impinge, kiss, lip, nudge, peck, rub, scrape, shave, sideswipe, skim, skirt, smack, smooch, squeak by, touch

Dictionary Results for osculate:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

osculate
    v 1: be intermediate between two taxonomic groups; "These
         species osculate"
    2: have at least three points in common with; "one curve
       osculates the other"; "these two surfaces osculate"
    3: 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" [syn:
       snog, kiss, buss, osculate]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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.]
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   1. To kiss.
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   2. (Geom.) To touch closely, so as to have a common curvature
      at the point of contact. See Osculation, 2.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Osculate \Os"cu*late\, v. i.
   1. To kiss one another; to kiss.
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   2. (Geom.) To touch closely. See Osculation, 2.
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   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.
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