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noun

Kiss n.

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."

A small piece of confectionery.

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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"Kiss" Quotes from Famous Books

... logic, ethics, morals, the equipment of sage, philosopher, good women, she had instinct only. Instinct told her the secret meaning of reticence in her relations with Julian. When she said good-bye to him, the hand-shake that passed between them had become something more to her than a kiss. She kissed so many whom she hated, so many who were dolls of vice to her, who were walking sins, incarnate lust shadows, scarcely men. To be to Julian what another woman might have been would be to seem to make him as all those ...

— Flames • Robert Smythe Hichens

... I indeed found you, and thus sorely wounded!" cried Hilda, kneeling down to impress a kiss on his brow, while she cast her arms ...

— Ronald Morton, or the Fire Ships - A Story of the Last Naval War • W.H.G. Kingston

... singular, the maddest impulses; it was one of the supreme moments of his life. He knew that all depended upon his absolute immobility; yet something in his brain was prompting him—prompting him—to gather the witch to his breast; to return that poisonous, that vampirish kiss, and then to crush out life from the ...

— The Yellow Claw • Sax Rohmer

... With one long kiss, and a straining in each others arms, which left me tingling for long after we had lost sight of each other, we parted. I stood and watched her as her white figure, gliding through the deepening gloom, faded as the forest thickened. It surely was no optical delusion or a phantom ...

— The Lady of the Shroud • Bram Stoker

... the garden is given to me, And, to double its value, 'twas given by thee; Its lovely bright tints to my eyesight is borne, Like the kiss of a fairy or blush ...

— Twentieth Century Negro Literature - Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating - to the American Negro • Various

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