Usually means: To touch or kiss lightly.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. osculate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. osculate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. osculate: Collins English Dictionary
  4. osculate: Vocabulary.com
  5. osculate: Wordnik
  6. osculate: Wiktionary
  7. osculate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. osculate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. osculate: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Osculate, osculate: Dictionary.com
  11. osculate: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. Osculate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Osculate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. osculate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. osculate: Rhymezone
  16. Osculate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. osculate: Free Dictionary
  18. osculate: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  19. osculate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. osculate: Dictionary/thesaurus
  21. osculate: Merriam-Webster.com

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  1. osculate: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Osculate (mathematics), osculate: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
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Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. osculate, osculate: A Word A Day
  2. osculate: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. osculate: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (osculate)

verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To kiss.
verb:  (mathematics) To touch so as to have the same tangent and curvature at the point of contact.
verb:  (intransitive) To make contact.
verb:  (Vedic arithmetic) To perform osculation.
verb:  To form a connecting link between two genera.
adjective:  Relating to kissing.

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