Definition of touch

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Touch (v. t.) To affect with insanity, especially in a slight degree; to make partially insane; -- rarely used except in the past participle..

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Knock-knee :: Knock-knee (n.) A condition in which the knees are bent in so as to touch each other in walking; inknee.
Reach :: Reach (v. t.) To extend to; to stretch out as far as; to touch by virtue of extent; as, his land reaches the river..
Touch :: Touch (v.) The act of the hand on a musical instrument; bence, in the plural, musical notes..
Touch :: Touch (v. t.) To try; to prove, as with a touchstone..
Crack :: Crack (n.) Mental flaw; a touch of craziness; partial insanity; as, he has a crack..
Noli-me-tangere :: Noli-me-tangere (n.) Any plant of a genus of herbs (Impatiens) having capsules which, if touched when ripe, discharge their seeds. -- See Impatiens..
Tactable :: Tactable (a.) Capable of being touched; tangible.
Cartouch :: Cartouch (n.) A military pass for a soldier on furlough.
Baseboard :: Baseboard (n.) A board, or other woodwork, carried round the walls of a room and touching the floor, to form a base and protect the plastering; -- also called washboard (in England), mopboard, and scrubboard..
Reach :: Reach (v. t.) To attain or obtain by stretching forth the hand; to extend some part of the body, or something held by one, so as to touch, strike, grasp, or the like; as, to reach an object with the hand, or with a spear..
Border :: Border (v. t.) To be, or to have, contiguous to; to touch, or be touched, as by a border; to be, or to have, near the limits or boundary; as, the region borders a forest, or is bordered on the north by a forest..
Battery :: Battery (v. t.) The unlawful beating of another. It includes every willful, angry and violent, or negligent touching of another's person or clothes, or anything attached to his person or held by him..
Touch :: Touch (v. t.) To make an impression on; to have effect upon.
Attrectation :: Attrectation (n.) Frequent handling or touching.
Angry :: Angry (superl.) Touched with anger; under the emotion of anger; feeling resentment; enraged; -- followed generally by with before a person, and at before a thing..
Touch :: Touch (v. t.) To strike; to manipulate; to play on; as, to touch an instrument of music..
Finger :: Finger (v. t.) To touch lightly; to toy with.
Pathos :: Pathos (n.) That quality or property of anything which touches the feelings or excites emotions and passions, esp., that which awakens tender emotions, such as pity, sorrow, and the like; contagious warmth of feeling, action, or expression; pathetic quality; as, the pathos of a picture, of a poem, or of a cry..
Openbill :: Openbill (n.) A bird of the genus Anastomus, allied to the stork; -- so called because the two parts of the bill touch only at the base and tip. One species inhabits India, another Africa. Called also open-beak. See Illust. (m), under Beak..
Ticklish :: Ticklish (a.) Sensible to slight touches; easily tickled; as, the sole of the foot is very ticklish; the hardened palm of the hand is not ticklish..
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