Inosculate

v. i. [imp. & p. p. INOSCULATED; p. pr. & vb. n. INOSCULATING.] [Lat. in and oscu-lari, osculatum, to kiss; It. inosculare. See OSCULATION.]

1Sense 1. To unite by apposition or contact; to unite, as two vessels at their extremities; to anastomose; as, one vein or artery inosculates with another; a vein inosculates with an artery.

2Sense 2. To blend, or become united.

The several monthly divisions of the journal may inosculate, but not the several volumes. De Quincey.

v. t. 1. To unite by apposition or contact, as two vessels in an animal body. 2. To unite intimately; to cause to become as one. *They were still together, grew (For so they said themselves) inosculated; Consonant chords that shiver to one note. Tennyson.*