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- 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.