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Definition of Touch
| v. t. | 1. | 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. | | 2. | To perceive by the sense of feeling. | | 3. | To come to; to reach; to attain to. | | 4. | To try; to prove, as with a touchstone. | | 5. | To relate to; to concern; to affect. | | 6. | To handle, speak of, or deal with; to treat of. | | 7. | To meddle or interfere with; as, I have not touched the books. | | 8. | To affect the senses or the sensibility of; to move; to melt; to soften; especially, to cause feelings of pity, compassion, sympathy, or gratitude in. | | 9. | To mark or delineate with touches; to add a slight stroke to with the pencil or brush. | | 10. | To infect; to affect slightly. | | 11. | To make an impression on; to have effect upon. | | 12. | To strike; to manipulate; to play on; as, to touch an instrument of music. | | 13. | To perform, as a tune; to play. | | 14. | To influence by impulse; to impel forcibly. | | 15. | To harm, afflict, or distress. | | 16. | To affect with insanity, especially in a slight degree; to make partially insane; - rarely used except in the past participle. | | 17. | (Geom.) To be tangent to. See Tangent, a. | | 18. | To lay a hand upon for curing disease. | | 19. | To compare with; to be equal to; - usually with a negative; as, he held that for good cheer nothing could touch an open fire. | | 20. | To induce to give or lend; to borrow from; as, to touch one for a loan; hence, to steal from. | | v. i. | 1. | To be in contact; to be in a state of junction, so that no space is between; as, two spheres touch only at points. | | 2. | To fasten; to take effect; to make impression. | | 3. | To treat anything in discourse, especially in a slight or casual manner; - often with on or upon. | | 4. | (Naut) To be brought, as a sail, so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes. | | n. | 1. | The act of touching, or the state of being touched; contact. | | 2. | (Physiol.) 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. | | 3. | Act or power of exciting emotion. | | 4. | An emotion or affection. | | 5. | Personal reference or application. | | 6. | A stroke; as, a touch of raillery; a satiric touch; hence, animadversion; censure; reproof. | | 7. | A single stroke on a drawing or a picture. | | 8. | Feature; lineament; trait. | | 9. | The act of the hand on a musical instrument; bence, in the plural, musical notes. | | 10. | A small quantity intermixed; a little; a dash. | | 11. | A hint; a suggestion; slight notice. | | 12. | A slight and brief essay. | | 13. | A touchstone; hence, stone of the sort used for touchstone. | | 14. | Hence, examination or trial by some decisive standard; test; proof; tried quality. | | 15. | (Mus.) 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. | | 16. | (Shipbilding) 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. | | 17. | (Football) That part of the field which is beyond the line of flags on either side. | | 18. | A boys' game; tag. | | 19. | (Change Ringing) A set of changes less than the total possible on seven bells, that is, less than 5,040. | | 20. | An act of borrowing or stealing. | | 21. | Tallow; - a plumber's term. |
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