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Osculatory

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os·cu·la·tion  (sky-lshn)
n.
1.
a. The act of kissing.
b. A kiss.
2. Mathematics A contact, as between two curves or surfaces, at three or more common points.
oscu·la·tory (sky-l-tôr, -tr) adj.
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And then there was that other--" but Turan, seeing a thousand or more years of osculatory memoirs portending, interrupted.
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He made conciliatory noises--a species of clucking sound with his broad, flat lips--that were, too, not greatly dissimilar to that which might be produced in an osculatory solo.
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