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osculation, n. 1. kiss, Inf. buss, Inf. smack, Inf. smooch, Inf. peck; kissing, Inf. smooching, Inf. making out, Inf. fooling around, necking, Inf. spooning. 2. close contact, touch, taction, tangency, contiguity; clasp, grip, hug, embrace; connection, link, bond, inosculation; meeting, merging, adjoining, blend, blending, combination, conjunction, junction.
osseous, adj. bony, skeletal; ossified, indurated, indurate, callous, hard, hardened, rigidified, rigid; stiff, inflexible, unbending, impliable; ossiferous, ossification, n. bone formation, Physiol, ostosis, induration, hardening; fossilization, petrification, ossified, adj. hardened, hard, indurated, indurate, bony, callous, rigidified, rigid, stiffened, stiff; fossilized, petrified.
ossify, v. 1. convert into bone, become bone, harden, stiffen, indurate, callous; fossilize, petrify.
2. become rigid, become inflexible, become unyielding, become obdurate, become resistant, become un-receptive.
ostensible, adj. 1. external, outward, superficial, pretended, feigned, assumed, put-on; supposed, presumed, reputed, inferred; professed, claimed, purported, avowed, alleged, so-called, nominal, in name only.
2. apparent, plain, clear, obvious, evident, Fr. en Evidence, manifest, patent, ostensive; distinct, in focus, lucid, plain as day, conspicuous, noticeable, prominent, unmistakable, ostentation, n. display, ritz, Inf. swank, splash, flourish, flashiness, frills; blazon, tinsel, trappings, spectacle, show, parade, pageantry, pomp; gilding, conspicuous consumption, window dressing, Inf. front, veneer, Inf. dog, Inf. keeping up with the Joneses, tasteless show, vulgar show; pomposity, pompousness, inflation, peacockery, foppery; vaunting, flaunting, affectation; semblance, pretension, pretense, ostentatious, adj. 1. pretentious, affected, overwrought, overdone, extreme; artificial, surface, specious, doggy; high-toned, high-flown, grandiose, elaborate, spectacular, fancy; orotund, conspicuous, showy, flashy, flamboyant, glittering, theatrical, SI. grandstand; raw, crude, vulgar, untasteful, tasteless, Fr. nouveau riche.
2. pompous, bombastic, vain, vainglorious; egotistical, fustian, fastuous, boastful, bragging, flaunting; dandified, foppish, mannered, ostracism, n. 1. banishment, exile, relegation, proscription, expatriation, deportation, transportation; expulsion, ejection, ouster, ousting; excommunication, disfellowship.
2. exclusion, removal, separation, segregation, (of races) apartheid; repudiation, rejection, abandonment.
ostracize, v. 1. exclude, shut out, bar, debar, segregate, blacklist; repudiate, disinherit, disown, cast aside; reject, discard, blackball; isolate, maroon, keep at arm's length, leave out in the cold; snub, Inf cut, Inf cold-shoulder, give [s.o.] the cold shoulder, Inf. high-hat; shun, spurn, turn one's back on, set one's face against; neglect, disregard, ignore, refuse to associate with, send to Coventry.
2. banish, exile, proscribe, relegate, expatriate, outlaw, deport, transport; excommunicate, disfellowship, disenfranchise; oust, eject, throw out, expel; discharge, drum out, cashier, SI. bounce, other, adj. 1. additional, additory, additamentary; further, extra, supplementary, supplemental, second, spare; added, appended, attached, annexed; augmented, increased, raised.