Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Inosculate

Inosculate , intransitive verb

[Prefix in- in + osculate.]

1.
To unite by apposition or contact, as two tubular vessels at their extremities; to anastomose.
2.
To intercommunicate; to interjoin.
The several monthly divisions of the journal may inosculate, but not the several volumes. — De Quincey

Inosculate , transitive verb

1.
To unite by apposition or contact, as two vessels in an animal body. — Berkeley
2.
To unite intimately; to cause to become as one.
They were still together, grew (For so they said themselves) inosculated. — Tennyson