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Relating to the Oscines.

Singing birds; a group of the Passeres, having numerous syringeal muscles, conferring musical ability.

One of the Oscines, or singing birds.

Of or pertaining to the Oscines.

Drowsiness; dullness; sluggishness. Hallam. It might proceed from the oscitancy of transcribers. Addison.

Sleepy; drowsy; dull; sluggish; careless. He must not be oscitant, but intent on his charge. Barrow.

In an oscitant manner.

To gape; to yawn.

The act of yawning or gaping. Addison.

Adhering closely; embracing; -- applied to certain creeping animals, as caterpillars.

To touch closely, so as to have a common curvature at the point of contact. See Osculation, 2.

The act of kissing; a kiss.

Of or pertaining to kissing; kissing. "The osculatory ceremony." Thackeray.

A curve whose contact with a given curve, at a given point, is of a higher order (or involves the equality of a greater number of successive differential coefficients of the ordinates of the curves taken at that point) than that of any other curve of the same kind.

One of the excurrent apertures of sponges.

Same as Oscule.

One of the long, pliable twigs of this plant, or of other somilar plants. The rank of osiers by the murmuring stream. Shak. Osier bed, or Osier holt, a place where willows are grown for basket making. [Eng.] -- Red osier. (a) A kind of willow with reddish twigs (Salix rubra). (b) An American shrub (Cornus stolonifera)…

Covered or adorned with osiers; as, osiered banks. [Poetic] Collins.

An osier bed.

One of the principal divinities of Egypt, the brother and husband of Isis. He was figured as a mummy wearing the royal cap of Upper Egypt, and was symbolized by the sacred bull, called Apis. Cf. Serapis. -- O*sir"i*an, a.