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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.