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.)
- 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.