oscular

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Nearly a third of the toe has been worn away by the oscular applications of the faithful.

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  1. In mathematics, pertaining to a higher order of contact than the first.
  2. Of or pertaining to the osculum of a sponge. Sottas.
  3. Oscular line a singularity of a surface, consisting of a right line which lies upon the surface throughout its whole length, and everywhere in the same tangent-plane, this plane having a contact with the surface of more than the first order in every plane section.

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  • Nearly a third of the toe has been worn away by the oscular applications of the faithful. —  Cambridge Sketches
 

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  1. from New Latin oscularis, from osculum, q. v.
 

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