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• Touch

  ·noun A boys' game; tag. II. Touch ·v An emotion or affection. III. Touch ·v A slight and brief es...

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• touch

  To touch; to get money from any one; also to arrest. Touched in the wind; broken winded. Touched in ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• touch

  In ship-building, the broadest part of a plank worked top-and-butt. Also, the angles of the stern-ti...

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• Touch-box

  ·noun A box containing lighted tinder, formerly carried by soldiers who used matchlocks, to kindle t...

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• Touch-needle

  ·noun A small bar of gold and silver, either pure, or alloyed in some known proportion with copper, ...

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• Touch-paper

  ·noun Paper steeped in saltpeter, which burns slowly, and is used as a match for firing gunpowder, a...

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• touch-box

  The receptacle for lighted tinder when match-locks were used. ...

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• touch-hole

  The small aperture at the end of a musket or pistol, by which the fire of the priming was communicat...

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• touch-wood

  See punk. ...

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• Touch-me-not

  ·noun ·see <<Impatiens>>. II. Touch-me-not ·noun Squirting cucumber. ·see under <<Cucumber>>. ...

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• touch-me-not

  (Lat. impatiens noli tangere.) A plant found about brooks, and in moist places.--Michaux, Sylva. A p...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• touch-and-go

  Said of anything within an ace of ruin; as in rounding a ship very narrowly to escape rocks, &c., or...

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• touch-and-take

  An old proverb which Nelson applied to a ship about to encounter her opponent. A Nelsonian maxim. ...

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• touch bun for luck

  See bun. ...

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• luff and touch her!

  Try how near the wind she will come. (See touching.) ...

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• tar-brush, touch of the

  A nautical term applied to those who are slightly darkened by mixed blood. ...

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• touch of the tar-brush

  A nautical phrase expressive of those officers who are seamen as well as quarter-deckers. Also said ...

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• touch up in the bunt, to

  To mend the sail on the yard; figuratively, to goad or remind forcibly. ...

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