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Entry 4 senses · 2 variants Webster, 1913

Inosculate

· In·os·cu·late · IPA /ɪˈnɒs.kjʊˌleɪt/
01 v. i. To unite by apposition or contact, as two tubular vessels at their extremities; to anastomose.
imp. & p. p. Inosculated; p. pr. & vb. n. Inosculating
  1. 1.
    To unite by apposition or contact, as two tubular vessels at their extremities; to anastomose.
  2. 2.
    To intercommunicate; to interjoin.
    “The several monthly divisions of the journal may inosculate, but not the several volumes.” — De Quincey.
02 v. t. To unite by apposition or contact, as two vessels in an animal body.
  1. 1.
    To unite by apposition or contact, as two vessels in an animal body.
  2. 2.
    To unite intimately; to cause to become as one.
    “They were still together, grew (For so they said themselves) inosculated.” — Tennyson.