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- English Word Touch Definition To infect; to affect slightly.
- English Word Touch Definition To make an impression on; to have effect upon.
- English Word Touch Definition To strike; to manipulate; to play on; as, to touch an instrument of music.
- English Word Touch Definition To perform, as a tune; to play.
- English Word Touch Definition To influence by impulse; to impel forcibly.
- English Word Touch Definition To harm, afflict, or distress.
- English Word Touch Definition To affect with insanity, especially in a slight degree; to make partially insane; -- rarely used except in the past participle.
- English Word Touch Definition To be tangent to. See Tangent, a.
- English Word Touch Definition To lay a hand upon for curing disease.
- English Word Touch Definition To be in contact; to be in a state of junction, so that no space is between; as, two spheres touch only at points.
- English Word Touch Definition To fasten; to take effect; to make impression.
- English Word Touch Definition To treat anything in discourse, especially in a slight or casual manner; -- often with on or upon.
- English Word Touch Definition To be brought, as a sail, so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes.
- English Word Touch Definition The act of touching, or the state of being touched; contact.
- English Word Touch Definition 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.
- English Word Touch Definition Act or power of exciting emotion.
- English Word Touch Definition An emotion or affection.
- English Word Touch Definition Personal reference or application.
- English Word Touch Definition A stroke; as, a touch of raillery; a satiric touch; hence, animadversion; censure; reproof.
- English Word Touch Definition A single stroke on a drawing or a picture.
- English Word Touch Definition Feature; lineament; trait.
- English Word Touch Definition The act of the hand on a musical instrument; bence, in the plural, musical notes.
- English Word Touch Definition A small quantity intermixed; a little; a dash.
- English Word Touch Definition A hint; a suggestion; slight notice.
- English Word Touch Definition A slight and brief essay.
- English Word Touch Definition A touchstone; hence, stone of the sort used for touchstone.
- English Word Touch Definition Hence, examination or trial by some decisive standard; test; proof; tried quality.
- English Word Touch Definition 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.
- English Word Touch Definition 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.
- English Word Touch Definition That part of the field which is beyond the line of flags on either side.