Word Meanings - INOSCULATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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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• UNITERABLE
  Not iterable; incapable of being repeated. "To play away an uniterable life." Sir T. Browne.
• ANASTOMOSE
  To inosculate; to intercommunicate by anastomosis, as the arteries and veins. The ribbing of the leaf, and the anastomosing network of its vessels. I. Taylor. (more info) Etym: (Anat. & Bot.)
• APPOSITION
  The state of two nouns or pronouns, put in the same case, without a connecting word between them; as, I admire Cicero, the orator. Here, the second noun explains or characterizes the first. Growth by apposition , a mode of growth characteristic
• CONTACTION
  Act of touching.
• TUBULARIAN
  Any hydroid belonging to the suborder Tubularida. Note: These hydroids usually form tufts of delicate tubes, and both gonophores and hydranths are naked. The gonophores of many of the species become free jellyfishes; those of other species remain
• CONTACT
  The property of two curves, or surfaces, which meet, and at the point of meeting have a common direction. (more info) 1. A close union or junction of bodies; a touching or meeting.
• JOURNALIST
  1. One who keeps a journal or diary. Mickle. 2. The conductor of a public journal, or one whose business it to write for a public journal; an editorial or other professional writer for a periodical. Addison.
• JOURNALIZE
  To enter or record in a journal or diary. Johnson.
• TUBULARIAE
  See TUBULARIDA
• JOURNAL
  Daily; diurnal. Whiles from their journal labors they did rest. Spenser.
• MONTHLY
  1. Continued a month, or a performed in a month; as, the monthly revolution of the moon. 2. Done, happening, payable, published, etc., once a month, or every month; as, a monthly visit; monthly charges; a monthly installment; a monthly magazine.
• SEVERALITY
  Each particular taken singly; distinction. Bp. Hall.
• SEVERALLY
  Separately; distinctly; apart from others; individually. There must be an auditor to check and revise each severally by itself. De Quincey.
• SEVERAL
  1. Separate; distinct; particular; single. Each several ship a victory did gain. Dryden. Each might his several province well command, Would all but stoop to what they understand. Pope. 2. Diverse; different; various. Spenser. Habits and faculties,
• INTERCOMMUNICATE
  To communicate mutually; to hold mutual communication.
• SEVERALTY
  A state of separation from the rest, or from all others; a holding by individual right. Forests which had never been owned in severalty. Bancroft. Estate in severalty , an estate which the tenant holds in his own right, without being joined in
• UNITEDLY
  In an united manner. Dryden.
• INOSCULATE
  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.
• JOURNALISM
  1. The keeping of a journal or diary. 2. The periodical collection and publication of current news; the business of managing, editing, or writing for, journals or newspapers; as, political journalism. Journalism is now truly an estate of the realm.
• JOURNALISTIC
  Pertaining to journals or to journalists; contained in, or characteristic of, the public journals; as journalistic literature or enterprise.
• BIMONTHLY
  Occurring, done, or coming, once in two months; as, bimonthly visits; bimonthly publications. -- n.
• ALUNITE
  Alum stone.
• INTERTUBULAR
  Between tubes or tubules; as, intertubular cells; intertubular substance.
• REUNITEDLY
  In a reunited manner.
• BRAUNITE
  A native oxide of manganese, of dark brownish black color. It was named from a Mr. Braun of Gotha.
• PREMUNITE
  To fortify beforehand; to guard against objection. Fotherby.