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inosculate |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Inosculate \In*os"cu*late\, v. t. 1. To unite by apposition or contact as two vessels in an animal body. --Berkeley. 2. To unite intimately; to cause to become as one They were still together, grew (For so they said themselves) inosculated. --Tennyson. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Inosculate \In*os"cu*late\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Inosculated}; p. pr & vb n. {Inosculating}.] [Pref. in- in + osculate.] 1. To unite by apposition or contact as two tubular vessels at their extremities; to anastomose. 2. To intercommunicate; to interjoin. The several monthly divisions of the journal may inosculate, but not the several volumes. --De Quincey.
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