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verb

Kiss v. t. (past & past part. kissed;pres. part. kissing)

To salute with the lips, as a mark of affection, reverence, submission, forgiveness, etc. "He... kissed her lips with such a clamorous smack, That at the parting all the church echoed."

To touch gently, as if fondly or caressingly. "When the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees."

Kiss v. i.

To make or give salutation with the lips in token of love, respect, etc.; as, kiss and make friends.

To meet; to come in contact; to touch fondly. "Like fire and powder, Which as they kiss consume." "Rose, rose and clematis, Trail and twine and clasp and kiss."

Kissing comfit, a perfumed sugarplum to sweeten the breath. (Obs or Prov. End.)

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Etymology of 'Kissing'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Kissing" Quotes from Famous Books

... devoted men, hurrying forward to destruction; they now looked upon themselves as favourites of fortune, and gave themselves up to the most unbounded joy. They thronged around the admiral with overflowing zeal, some embracing him, others kissing his hands. Those who had been most mutinous and turbulent during the voyage, were now most devoted and enthusiastic. Some begged favours of him, as if he had already wealth and honours in his gift. Many abject spirits, who had outraged him by their insolence, now crouched ...

— MacMillan's Reading Books - Book V • Anonymous

... condemned. On the third day he is dismissed through the mercy and clemency of Hoh, or receives the inviolable rigour of his sentence. An accused person is reconciled to his accuser and to his witnesses, as it were, with the medicine of his complaint, that is, with embracing and kissing. No one is killed or stoned unless by the hands of the people, the accuser and the witnesses beginning first. For they have no executioners and lictors, lest the state should sink into ruin. The ...

— Ideal Commonwealths • Various

... nobody had spoken to her all the afternoon, and her trunk had not come yet, and she did not know where the dining-room was, and the corridors were full of packing-boxes with lids scattered around, and girls were hurrying to and fro with step-ladders and kissing each other and running to hug each other, ...

— Beatrice Leigh at College - A Story for Girls • Julia Augusta Schwartz

... if the Sun breed Magots in a dead dogge, being a good kissing Carrion—[10] [Sidenote: carrion. Have] Haue ...

— The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark - A Study with the Text of the Folio of 1623 • George MacDonald

... prisoner? Not let it go! Little Clinton would put in his decided "No, no!" if they motioned to do such a thing. See how he dances and jabbers around it; touching its cool dewy nose with his little fat palms, clasping its velvet neck, soothing it, kissing it, and driving old Jowler out of the house, lest he may have a savage heart, which he proudly disdains, and offer to bite the beauty. A darling prize is that trembling fawn, as ever graced a dwelling. "And we must ...

— Summerfield - or, Life on a Farm • Day Kellogg Lee

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