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- 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.
- 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