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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. |
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To perceive by the sense of feeling. |
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To come to; to reach; to attain to. |
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To try; to prove, as with a touchstone. |
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To relate to; to concern; to affect. |
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To handle, speak of, or deal with; to treat of. |
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To meddle or interfere with; as, I have not touched the
books. |
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To affect the senses or the sensibility of; to move; to
melt; to soften. |
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To mark or delineate with touches; to add a slight stroke
to with the pencil or brush. |
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To infect; to affect slightly. |
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To make an impression on; to have effect upon. |
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To strike; to manipulate; to play on; as, to touch an
instrument of music. |
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To perform, as a tune; to play. |
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To influence by impulse; to impel forcibly. |
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To harm, afflict, or distress. |
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To affect with insanity, especially in a slight degree;
to make partially insane; -- rarely used except in the past participle. |
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To be tangent to. See Tangent, a. |
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To lay a hand upon for curing disease. |
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To be in contact; to be in a state of junction, so that
no space is between; as, two spheres touch only at points. |
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To fasten; to take effect; to make impression. |
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To treat anything in discourse, especially in a slight or
casual manner; -- often with on or upon. |
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To be brought, as a sail, so close to the wind that its
weather leech shakes. |
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The act of touching, or the state of being touched; contact. |
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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. |
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Act or power of exciting emotion. |
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An emotion or affection. |
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Personal reference or application. |
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A stroke; as, a touch of raillery; a satiric touch; hence,
animadversion; censure; reproof. |
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A single stroke on a drawing or a picture. |
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Feature; lineament; trait. |
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The act of the hand on a musical instrument; bence, in the
plural, musical notes. |
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A small quantity intermixed; a little; a dash. |
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A hint; a suggestion; slight notice. |
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A slight and brief essay. |
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A touchstone; hence, stone of the sort used for touchstone. |
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Hence, examination or trial by some decisive standard; test;
proof; tried quality. |
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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. |
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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. |
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That part of the field which is beyond the line of flags on
either side. |
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A boys' game; tag. |
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