osculate

1. To kiss.
2. To touch so as to have the same tangent and curvature at the point of contact.
3. To make contact.
4. To perform osculation.
5. To form a connecting link between two genera.

From Latin ōsculātus (“kiss”), from ōs + -culus (“little mouth”). Doublet of oscillate.

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