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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
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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Needle
·vi To form needles; to crystallize in the form of needles. II. Needle ·noun ·see Magnetic needle, ...

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Needle
Used only in the proverb, "to pass through a needle's eye" (Matt. 19:24; Mark 10:25; Luke 18:25). So...

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needle
A taylor or stay-maker. ...

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needle
The Ang.-Sax. nædl. (See also magnetic needle.) ...

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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-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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Cleopatra's needle
·add. ·- Either of two obelisks which were moved in ancient times from Heliopolis to Alexandria, one...

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Needle-pointed
·adj Pointed as needles. ...

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Sea needle
·- ·see Garfish (a). ...

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needle point
A sharper. ...

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needle-bush
n. name applied to two Australiantrees, Hakea leucoptera, R. Br., N.O. Proteaceae;called also Pin-b...

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boltrope-needle
A strong needle for stitching the sail to the bolt-ropes. ...

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dipping-needle
An instrument for ascertaining the amount of the magnet's inclination towards the earth; it is so de...

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inclinatory needle
An old term for the dipping-needle (which see). ...

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magnetic needle
Applied to theodolites, ships' compasses, &c. A balanced needle, highly magnetized, which points to ...

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mariner's needle
The magnetized bar of a mariner's compass. ...

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needle-fish
The shorter pipe-fish, stang, or sting, Sygnathus acus. ...

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needle-gun
One wherein the ignition for the cartridge is produced by the penetration of the detonating priming ...

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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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Devil's darning-needle
·- A dragon fly. ·see Darning needle, under Darn, ·vt. ...

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Three Needle Street
See Threadneedle Street. ...

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devil's darning needle
A common name for the Dragon-fly. ...

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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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