What does "inosculate" mean?

Inosculate: To intercommunicate; to interjoin. The several monthly divisions of the journal may inosculate, but not the several volumes. De Quincey.

Additional senses

  1. 2.To unite by apposition or contact, as two vessels in an animal body. Berkeley.
  2. 3.To unite intimately; to cause to become as one. They were still together, grew (For so they said themselves) inosculated. Tennyson.

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