·noun A boys' game; tag.
II. Touch ·v An emotion or affection.
III. Touch ·v A slight and brief essay.
IV. Touch ·v Feature; lineament; trait.
V. Touch ·vt To harm, afflict, or distress.
VI. Touch ·v Act or power of exciting emotion.
VII. Touch ·v Personal reference or application.
VIII. Touch ·vt To be tangent to. ·see Tangent, ·adj.
IX. Touch ·v A hint; a suggestion; slight notice.
X. Touch ·adj To lay a hand upon for curing disease.
XI. Touch ·vt To perceive by the sense of feeling.
XII. Touch ·v A single stroke on a drawing or a picture.
XIII. Touch ·add. ·noun Tallow;
— a plumber's term.
XIV. Touch ·vt To influence by impulse; to impel forcibly.
XV. Touch ·v A small quantity intermixed; a little; a dash.
XVI. Touch ·add. ·noun An act of borrowing or stealing.
XVII. Touch ·vt To make an impression on; to have effect upon.
XVIII. Touch ·vt To handle, speak of, or deal with; to treat of.
XIX. Touch ·vt To Infect; to affect slightly.
XX. Touch ·vt To perform, as a tune; to Play.
XXI. Touch ·v A touchstone; hence, stone of the sort used for touchstone.
XXII. Touch ·v The act of touching, or the state of being touched; contact.
XXIII. Touch ·vt To come to; to Reach; to attain to.
XXIV. Touch ·vt To Try; to prove, as with a touchstone.
XXV. Touch ·vt To meddle or interfere with; as, I have not touched the books.
XXVI. Touch ·vi To Fasten; to take effect; to make impression.
XXVII. Touch ·noun That part of the field which is beyond the line of flags on either side.
XXVIII. Touch ·vi To be brought, as a sail, so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes.
XXIX. Touch ·v The act of the hand on a musical instrument; bence, in the plural, musical notes.
XXX. Touch ·vt To relate to; to Concern; to Affect.
XXXI. Touch ·v Hence, examination or trial by some decisive standard; test; proof; tried quality.
XXXII. Touch ·vt To mark or delineate with touches; to add a slight stroke to with the pencil or brush.
XXXIII. Touch ·v A stroke; as, a touch of raillery; a satiric touch; hence, animadversion; censure; reproof.
XXXIV. Touch ·vi To treat anything in discourse, especially in a slight or casual manner;
— often with on or upon.
XXXV. Touch ·add. ·noun A set of changes less than the total possible on seven bells, that is, less than 5,040.
XXXVI. Touch ·add. ·vt To induce to give or lend; to borrow from; as, to touch one for a loan; hence, to steal from.
XXXVII. Touch ·vi To be in contact; to be in a state of junction, so that no space is between; as, two spheres touch only at points.
XXXVIII. Touch ·vt To Strike; to Manipulate; to play on; as, to touch an instrument of music.
XXXIX. Touch ·vt To come in contact with; to hit or strike lightly against; to extend the hand, foot, or the like, so as to reach or rest on.
XL. Touch ·vt To affect with insanity, especially in a slight degree; to make partially insane;
— rarely used except in the past participle.
XLI. Touch ·vt To affect the senses or the sensibility of; to Move; to Melt; to Soften.
XLII. Touch ·add. ·vt To compare with; of be equal to;
— usually with a negative; as, he held that for good cheer nothing could touch an open fire.
XLIII. Touch ·v The sense by which pressure or traction exerted on the skin is recognized; the sense by which the properties of bodies are determined by contact; the tactile sense. ·see Tactile sense, under Tactile.
XLIV. Touch ·v The broadest part of a plank worked top and but (see Top and but, under Top, ·noun), or of one worked anchor-stock fashion (that is, tapered from the middle to both ends); also, the angles of the stern timbers at the counters.
XLV. Touch ·v The particular or characteristic mode of action, or the resistance of the keys of an instrument to the fingers; as, a heavy touch, or a light touch; also, the manner of touching, striking, or pressing the keys of a piano; as, a legato touch; a staccato touch.