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Kiss   /kɪs/   Listen
noun
Kiss  n.  
1.
A salutation with the lips, as a token of affection, respect, etc.; as, a parting kiss; a kiss of reconciliation. "Last with a kiss, she took a long farewell." "Dear as remembered kisses after death."
2.
A small piece of confectionery.


verb
Kiss  v. t.  (past & past part. kissed;pres. part. kissing)  
1.
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."
2.
To touch gently, as if fondly or caressingly. "When the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees."


Kiss  v. i.  
1.
To make or give salutation with the lips in token of love, respect, etc.; as, kiss and make friends.
2.
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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"Kiss" Quotes from Famous Books



... now completely subjugated, with the memory of the kiss upon him and a heightened color, protested that he only wanted to make their intercourse less constrained, and to have their relations, even their engagement, recognized by her parents; still he would take her advice. ...
— Susy, A Story of the Plains • Bret Harte
... to Neasdon, I hope that they will carry me with them. When George meets me, he accosts me with these words, "Quomodo vale (sic) my petite sodale;" ou il a peche cette plaisanterie I do not know. His namesake, Lord G. Germain,(194) is to kiss hands this morning for the title and peerage of Sackville. Drayton, it seems, goes to the Beauclerks, if he becomes Duke of Dorset and has ...
— George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life • E. S. Roscoe and Helen Clergue
... bent to mischief, dip a twig in the gutter, and drag it across our polished boots: on the contrary, when they are inclined to be gentle and generous, they leap boisterously upon our knees, and kiss us with bread-and-butter in their ...
— The Grammar of English Grammars • Goold Brown
... cried the genial prince looking [Pg 69] rarther supprised. Mr Salteena bowed so low he nearly fell off the platform and as the prince put out a hand Mr Salteena thought he had better kiss it. The Prince smiled kindly I am pleased to see you Lord Hyssops he ...
— The Young Visiters or, Mr. Salteena's Plan • Daisy Ashford
... Bacchante of herself as she took her aunt up to the drawing-room, dancing round her, and ever and again rushing in upon her for another kiss. ...
— Daisy's Aunt • E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson


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