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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
No touch to it, i. e. not to compare with it. A common expression in vulgar language. The children ...

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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...

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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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