Osculatory plane (to a curve of double curvature), a plane which passes through three successive points of the curve.
It is the locus of the centers of all the circles which are osculatory to the given curve or evolvent.
Osculatory sphere (to a line of double curvature), a sphere passing through four consecutive points of the curve.
A sphere may be osculatory to the surface in every direction at an umbilicus.
There have been some amusing osculatory experiences in the far western part of our country.
At last a gentleman rushed up with drawn revolver and fired a shot close to the ape's ear, whereupon he at once abandoned his osculatory efforts, and made his escape.
They were respectable young ladies and were slow to do anything that might compromise them, still they kissed the clown, who lifted a flap of the tent and passed in each as she paid the osculatory fee.
Producing from his kammerbund a red handkerchief containing the stolen kerans, he advances and humbly lays it at my feet, at the same time kneeling down and implanting yet another osculatory favor on my geivehs.
Her eyes are a trifle too ferrety, but theosculatory power of her mouth in auld lang syne must have been such as to give Cupid spinal curvature.
In making a list of the company, we can leave out the widower altogether, because he took no part in the osculatory exercise.
But it seems that the melancholy widower was merely collecting material for the following little osculatory problem.
