KISS  , the See also:

• ACT (Lat. actus, actum)

act of pressing or touching with the lips, cheek, See also:

• HAND
• HAND (a word common to Teutonic languages; cf. Ger. Hand, Goth. handus)
• HAND, FERDINAND GOTTHELF (1786-185r)

hand or lips of another, as a sign or expression of love, See also:

• AFFECTION (Lat. ad, and facere, to do something to, sc. a person)

affection, reverence or greeting . See also:

• SKEAT, WALTER WILLIAM (1835– )

Skeat (Etym . Dict., 1898) connects the See also:

• TENT

Tent. See also:

• BASE

base kussa with See also:

• LAT

Lat. gust us, See also:

• TASTE (from Lat. taxare, to touch sharply; tangere, to touch)

taste, and with Goth. kustus, test, from kinsan, to choose, and takes " kiss " as ultimately a doublet of " choice." For the liturgical osculum pads or " kiss of See also:

• PEACE
• PEACE, BREACH OF THE

peace," see See also:

• PAX (Lat. for " peace ")

PAX . See further C . Nyrop, The Kiss and its See also:

• HISTORY

History, trans. by W . F . See also:

• HARVEY
• HARVEY, GABRIEL (c. 1545-1630)
• HARVEY, SIR GEORGE (1806-1876)
• HARVEY, WILLIAM (1578—1657)

Harvey (1902); J . J . See also:

• CLAUDIUS
• CLAUDIUS [TIBERIUS CLAUDIUS DRUSUS NERO GERMANICUS]
• CLAUDIUS, MARCUS AURELIUS
• CLAUDIUS, MATTHIAS (174o-1815)

Claudius, Dissertatio de salutationibus veterum (See also:

• UTRECHT
• UTRECHT, TREATY OF

Utrecht, 1702); and " Baisers d'6tiquette " (1689) in Archives curieuses de l'histoire de See also:

• FRANCE
• FRANCE, ANATOLE (1844– )

France (1834-1890, See also:

• SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

series ii. tom . 12) .