Kiss \Kiss\ (k[i^]s), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Kissed} (k[i^]st);p. pr. & vb. n. {Kissing}.] [OE. kissen, cussen, AS. cyssan, fr. coss a kiss; of uncertain origin; akin to D. kus, G. kuss, Icel. koss.] 1. 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. --Shak.
2. To touch gently, as if fondly or caressingly.
When the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees. --Shak.
Kiss \Kiss\, v. i. 1. To make or give salutation with the lips in token of love, respect, etc.; as, kiss and make friends.
2. To meet; to come in contact; to touch fondly.
Like fire and powder, Which as they kiss consume. --Shak.
Rose, rose and clematis, Trail and twine and clasp and kiss. --Tennyson.
{Kissing comfit}, a perfumed sugarplum to sweeten the breath. [Obs or Prov. End.] --Shak.
Kiss \Kiss\, n. [OE. kiss, derived under the influence of the verb from the older form coss, AS. coss. See {Kiss}, v.] 1. 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. --Dryden.
Dear as remembered kisses after death. --Tennyson.
2. A small piece of confectionery.
Earlier in the day, Denis Thatcher, the prime minister's husband, gave Mrs. Bush a gallant kiss on the hand when he greeted her at 10 Downing Street.
"It was scary _ you never really knew who you were up against," said the 23-year-old father of three. "Every now and then someone would wave and blow a kiss.
Those who prefer not to kiss simply suffer.
He believes the Prince represents Gorbachev and the kiss that awakens Snow White is "glasnost," but has no idea where it is they are riding off to.
One fanciful tabloid has even engineered a kiss and tell on the cheap, hiring a medium to transmit the amorous confessions of a sultry, though deceased, British actress.
The president's wife, Barbara Bush, delighted photographers and television cameras at 10 Downing Street today with an impulsive kiss to the hand of Denis Thatcher, the spouse of the British prime minister.
Walesa sipped champagne for the TV cameras and gave an awkward but affectionate kiss to his wife Danuta at the insistence of photographers.
In jail he develops a friendship with his homosexual guard, who brings him books in exchange for an occasional (chaste, he hastens to point out) kiss.
In France the number of kisses rises as you go down the social scale: the upper classes kiss twice, the middle classes three times and the working classes four times.
On Wednesday, Bush said that fear of "kiss and tell" books has sometimes kept him from speaking up in Cabinet meetings.
When another jet gave him some competition, Carreras looked up and blew it a kiss.
Supporters of Christian leader Gen. Michel Aoun today roughed up Lebanon's Maronite Catholic partriarch and forced him to kiss a picture of Aoun for supporting a peace plan the general opposes, police said.
She paused at each step to pray or to kiss the crucifix of her rosary after touching it to a spot where Christ's blood supposedly fell.
They'll do anything." He arrived at the White House in Washington by helicopter from Andrews Air Force Base to be greeted on the South Lawn by his wife Barbara, who got a kiss, and dog Millie, who got a pat.
Coretta Scott King attended the Republican National Convention Tuesday night, getting a kiss from Barbara Bush and listening raptly to New Jersey Gov. Thomas Kean's keynote address.
'Kisskiss' refers to the bits where two people melt together, softened by the string section and lured by the cosmic push towards Oneness.
The other night, I saw on a television sit-com a 10-year-old boy come down for breakfast and kiss his mother and father before sitting down to eat.
The captain got a kiss, a hug and flowers from his wife, Sharon.
They'll kiss a million babies, shake a billion hands, spend a zillion dollars and then after two years of this, one of them gets to be president, just like Gorbachev.
Instead of asking Rose to kiss his bride, Lewan said: "The couple will consummate their marriage by rolling the bowling balls down the alley." He left two pins standing, she left five.
Men grab his shoulder, women kiss his cheek and whisper in his ear.
"The newcomers gave the kiss of life to Gaelic games in this country," avows the Rev. Martin Keaveny, who was the first priest sent over by the Irish bishops to work as a chaplain among the illegals at the urging of Cardinal John O'Connor.
"A city without girls is like a hug without a kiss _ it's good but it's not enough," said the Rev. Val Peter, executive director of Boys Town.
Robert Kirby, chairman of Capital Guardian Trust in Los Angeles, recently attended a presentation by a female marketing consultant in his firm's New York office and was given a big parting hug and a kiss on the cheek.
After Simon had telephoned Soviet refusenik Elena Keis-Kuna in Leningrad to offer his support and best wishes, she sent him a kiss.
Do you want to be the first one to kiss me?'
The couple did not kiss as the priest declared them husband and wife.
The minister won't have to tell Lloyd Gubler he may kiss the bride when he and his fiancee get married at noon Saturday.
The men will be asked to close their eyes and remember their first kiss, an attempt to get them to associate sex with romance, said William Sullivan, president of the neighborhood group.
It travelled slowly into the monster's lair, and there was a noise like a wet kiss.