| Touch |
v. t. |
To compare with; of be equal to;
usually with a negative; as, he held that for good cheer nothing could touch an open fire. |
| Touch |
v. t. |
To induce to give or lend; to borrow from; as, to touch one for a loan; hence, to steal from. |
| Touch |
n. |
A set of changes less than the total possible on seven bells, that is, less than 5,040. |
| Touch |
n. |
An act of borrowing or stealing. |
| Touch |
n. |
Tallow;
a plumber's term. |
| Touch |
v. t. |
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. |
| Touch |
v. t. |
To perceive by the sense of feeling. |
| Touch |
v. t. |
To come to; to reach; to attain to. |
| Touch |
v. t. |
To try; to prove, as with a touchstone. |
| Touch |
v. t. |
To relate to; to concern; to affect. |
| Touch |
v. t. |
To handle, speak of, or deal with; to treat of. |
| Touch |
v. t. |
To meddle or interfere with; as, I have not touched the books. |
| Touch |
v. t. |
To affect the senses or the sensibility of; to move; to melt; to soften. |
| Touch |
v. t. |
To mark or delineate with touches; to add a slight stroke to with the pencil or brush. |
| Touch |
v. t. |
To infect; to affect slightly. |
| Touch |
v. t. |
To make an impression on; to have effect upon. |
| Touch |
v. t. |
To strike; to manipulate; to play on; as, to touch an instrument of music. |
| Touch |
v. t. |
To perform, as a tune; to play. |
| Touch |
v. t. |
To influence by impulse; to impel forcibly. |
| Touch |
v. t. |
To harm, afflict, or distress. |
| Touch |
v. t. |
To affect with insanity, especially in a slight degree; to make partially insane;
rarely used except in the past participle. |
| Touch |
v. t. |
To be tangent to. See Tangent, a. |
| Touch |
a. |
To lay a hand upon for curing disease. |
| Touch |
v. i. |
To be in contact; to be in a state of junction, so that no space is between; as, two spheres touch only at points. |
| Touch |
v. i. |
To fasten; to take effect; to make impression. |
| Touch |
v. i. |
To treat anything in discourse, especially in a slight or casual manner;
often with on or upon. |
| Touch |
v. i. |
To be brought, as a sail, so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes. |
| Touch |
v. |
The act of touching, or the state of being touched; contact. |
| 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. |
| Touch |
v. |
Act or power of exciting emotion. |
| Touch |
v. |
An emotion or affection. |
| Touch |
v. |
Personal reference or application. |
| Touch |
v. |
A stroke; as, a touch of raillery; a satiric touch; hence, animadversion; censure; reproof. |
| Touch |
v. |
A single stroke on a drawing or a picture. |
| Touch |
v. |
Feature; lineament; trait. |
| Touch |
v. |
The act of the hand on a musical instrument; bence, in the plural, musical notes. |
| Touch |
v. |
A small quantity intermixed; a little; a dash. |
| Touch |
v. |
A hint; a suggestion; slight notice. |
| Touch |
v. |
A slight and brief essay. |
| Touch |
v. |
A touchstone; hence, stone of the sort used for touchstone. |
| Touch |
v. |
Hence, examination or trial by some decisive standard; test; proof; tried quality. |
| 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. |
| Touch |
v. |
The broadest part of a plank worked top and but (see Top and but, under Top, n.), 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. |
| Touch |
n. |
That part of the field which is beyond the line of flags on either side. |
| Touch |
n. |
A boys' game; tag. |
