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Inosculate
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 2
Part of speech: verb (v.)
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.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 2
Part of speech: verb (v.)
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.