osculatory

A sphere may be osculatory to the surface in every direction at an umbilicus.

I can only presume he means the cir-culation in his big toe after osculatory manipulation by his lover.

It is the locus of the centers of all the circles which are osculatory to the given curve or evolvent.

To ascribe osculatory attributes to a season characterized by rot and decay struck her as a textbook example of metaphoric excess.

And then there was that other--" but Turan, seeing a thousand or more years of osculatory memoirs portending, interrupted.

If history is correct, for once, then the kiss began as an osculatory wiretap, an oral snoop, a kind of alcoholic chastity belt, after the fact.

And once Gregory and Rose fall into each other's arms, Mr. Bridges all but winces under the ferocity of Ms. Streisand's osculatory assault.

But the lovers' clinches are so clumsy and heat-free that the actors appear to be wincing through their osculatory chores: not a promising indicator of bliss unto eternity.

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.

You must remember this, A kiss is still . . . an osculatory apposition of the orbicularis oris and levator labii muscles with posterior involvement of the sternocleidomastoids, commonly in a dexterous orientation.

After the opening night party, Sarah performed the same osculatory acrobatics with Carella, in the back seat of his father's automobile, which led to a somewhat steamy interlude interrupted by two uniformed cops driving past in a radio motor patrol car.

After going through their ups and downs together, Coop (Trey Parker) and Remer (Matt Stone), the inventors of a driveway game called Baseketball that becomes a national obsession, kiss and make up in what may be the slurpiest, most tongue-twisting, but least erotic osculatory collision to be found in a recent movie.

(That locution, also called a soul kiss, involves the insertion of the tongue into the osculatory partner's mouth; both these terms are now considered old-fashioned by teenagers, who - after a brief flirtation with the odious sucking face - turned for a time to the puckish tonsil hockey, which has a sporting rather than an international connotation.)