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Kiss   /kɪs/   Listen
Kiss

noun
1.
The act of caressing with the lips (or an instance thereof).  Synonyms: buss, osculation.
2.
A cookie made of egg whites and sugar.
3.
Any of several bite-sized candies.  Synonym: candy kiss.
4.
A light glancing touch.
verb
(past & past part. kissed;pres. part. kissing)
1.
Touch with the lips or press the lips (against someone's mouth or other body part) as an expression of love, greeting, etc..  Synonyms: buss, osculate, snog.  "She kissed her grandfather on the forehead when she entered the room"
2.
Touch lightly or gently.



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"Kiss" Quotes from Famous Books



... suppose there'll be some holy angels to look after us, because God isn't gone away, you see: He's there and here too. He'll help me still to look after Will and Baby, now I haven't"—a sob interrupted the words—"haven't got Father. Good-bye, Dolly! Kiss me, please. Nobody never kisses ...
— The King's Daughters • Emily Sarah Holt

... prostrate before the female Chief with an effort to clasp her knees, from which she drew back, as if his touch had been pollution, so that all he could do in token of the extremity of his humiliation, was to kiss the hem of her plaid. I never heard entreaties for life poured forth with such agony of spirit. The ecstasy of fear was such, that instead of paralysing his tongue, as on ordinary occasions, it even rendered him eloquent; and, with cheeks pale as ashes, hands compressed in ...
— Rob Roy, Complete, Illustrated • Sir Walter Scott

... bosom, Eton: now each face Anticipation brightens with delight, While many a fancied bliss floats gaily O'er the ardent mind, chaste as the Nautilus, Spreading her pearly spangles to the sun: The joyous welcome of parental love, The heart-inspiring kiss a sister yields, A brother's greeting, and the cheering smiles Of relatives and friends, and aged domestics, Time-honor'd for their probity and zeal, Whose silvery locks recall to mem'ry's view Some playful scene of earliest childhood, When frolic, mirth, and gambol led the way, Ere ...
— The English Spy • Bernard Blackmantle

... betrayed him had given them a token, saying, "Whomsoever I shall kiss, that is he; take him, and lead him away safely." And when he was come, straightway he came to him, and saith, ...
— His Last Week - The Story of the Passion and Resurrection of Jesus • William E. Barton

... and falls on his knees before him). Father of my captain! let me kiss thy feet! My dagger is ...
— The Works of Frederich Schiller in English • Frederich Schiller


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