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- English Word Touch Definition A boys' game; tag.
- English Word Touch-box Definition A box containing lighted tinder, formerly carried by soldiers who used matchlocks, to kindle the match.
- English Word Touch-me-not Definition See Impatiens.
- English Word Touch-me-not Definition Squirting cucumber. See under Cucumber.
- English Word Touch-needle Definition A small bar of gold and silver, either pure, or alloyed in some known proportion with copper, for trying the purity of articles of gold or silver by comparison of the streaks made by the article and the bar on a touchstone.
- English Word Touch-paper Definition Paper steeped in saltpeter, which burns slowly, and is used as a match for firing gunpowder, and the like.
- English Word Touchable Definition Capable of being touched; tangible.
- English Word Touchback Definition The act of touching the football down by a player behind his own goal line when it received its last impulse from an opponent; -- distinguished from safety touchdown.
- English Word Touchdown Definition The act of touching the football down behind the opponents' goal .
- English Word Touched Definition of Touch
- English Word Touchhole Definition The vent of a cannot or other firearm, by which fire is communicateed to the powder of the charge.
- English Word Touchily Definition In a touchy manner.
- English Word Touchiness Definition The quality or state of being touchy peevishness; irritability; irascibility.
- English Word Touching Definition of Touch
- English Word Touching Definition Affecting; moving; pathetic; as, a touching tale.
- English Word Touching Definition Concerning; with respect to.
- English Word Touching Definition The sense or act of feeling; touch.
- English Word Touchstone Definition Lydian stone; basanite; -- so called because used to test the purity of gold and silver by the streak which is left upon the stone when it is rubbed by the metal. See Basanite.
- English Word Touchstone Definition Any test or criterion by which the qualities of a thing are tried.
- English Word Touchwood Definition Wood so decayed as to serve for tinder; spunk, or punk.
- English Word Touchwood Definition Dried fungi used as tinder; especially, the Polyporus igniarius.
- English Word Touchy Definition Peevish; irritable; irascible; techy; apt to take fire.
- English Word Tough Definition Having the quality of flexibility without brittleness; yielding to force without breaking; capable of resisting great strain; as, the ligaments of animals are remarkably tough.
- English Word Tough Definition Not easily broken; able to endure hardship; firm; strong; as, tough sinews.
- English Word Tough Definition Not easily separated; viscous; clammy; tenacious; as, tough phlegm.
- English Word Tough Definition Stiff; rigid; not flexible; stubborn; as, a tough bow.
- English Word Tough Definition Severe; violent; as, a tough storm.
- English Word Tough-cake Definition See Tough-pitch (b).
- English Word Tough-head Definition The ruddy duck.
- English Word Tough-pitch Definition The exact state or quality of texture and consistency of well reduced and refined copper.