Anastomosing: inosculating or running into each other. ❋ John. B. Smith (N/A)
The internal ear may be considered as the actual seat of the organ; it consists of a nervous expansion of high sensibility, the sentient extremities of which spread in every direction, and in the most minute manner; inosculating with each other, and forming plexus, by which the auricular sense is increased. ❋ Various (N/A)
It affords a norm of life, inosculating with a multiplicity of other norms, with which it goes to make up a balanced scheme of ends, ways and means governing human conduct; and no one such institutional item, therefore, is materially to be disturbed, discarded or abated except at the cost of serious derangement to the balanced scheme of things in which it belongs as an integral constituent. ❋ Thorstein Veblen (1893)
Numerous inosculating branches radiate from this center and are called, from the method of their distribution, the _solar plexus_. ❋ Ray Vaughn Pierce (1877)
The inosculating ones are almost all figs and _Wightia_: the latter is the most remarkable, and I add a cut of its grasping roots, sketched at our encampment. ❋ Unknown (1864)
From the masts of the steamer we obtained an excellent _coup-d'oeil_ of the Sunderbunds; its swamps clothed with verdure, and intersected by innumerable inosculating channels, with banks a foot or so high. ❋ Unknown (1864)
From Dorjiling the appearance of parallel ridges is found to be deceptive, and due to the inosculating spurs of long tortuous ranges that ran north and south throughout the whole length of Sikkim, dividing deep wooded valleys, which form the beds of large rivers. ❋ Unknown (1864)
Mr. MacLeay himself never imagined such an inosculating creature: I suppose it will turn out to be some well-known bird, although it has quite baffled me. ❋ Charles Darwin (1845)
Around these bodies of inosculating waters, are well cultivated farms and a number of gentlemen's country-seats, forming a picture of rural beauty and plenty not easily surpassed in Spring, Summer, and Autumn; and when winter has frozen the lakes and all the rivers, this spot has another and singular advantage; for our adventurer sold the water of this pond; which was sent to the West-Indian Islands, Philadelphia, ❋ John Bound (1833)
Near the Red Sea lies a chain of sand hills, which, by a natural system of grooves inosculating with each other, become vocal under changing circumstances in the position of the sun, &c. ❋ Thomas De Quincey (1822)
