Definition of touch

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Touch (v. i.) To be brought, as a sail, so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes..

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Raw :: Raw (superl.) Not worked in due form; in the natural state; untouched by art; unwrought.
Touch :: Touch (v.) Personal reference or application.
Sore :: Sore (superl.) Tender to the touch; susceptible of pain from pressure; inflamed; painful; -- said of the body or its parts; as, a sore hand..
Flytrap :: Flytrap (n.) A plant (Dionaea muscipula), called also Venus's flytrap, the leaves of which are fringed with stiff bristles, and fold together when certain hairs on their upper surface are touched, thus seizing insects that light on them. The insects so caught are afterwards digested by a secretion from the upper surface of the leaves..
Tickle :: Tickle (a.) Wavering, or liable to waver and fall at the slightest touch; unstable; easily overthrown..
Touch :: Touch (v. t.) To relate to; to concern; to affect.
Trait :: Trait (v.) A stroke; a touch.
Hit :: Hit (v. t.) To reach with a stroke or blow; to strike or touch, usually with force; especially, to reach or touch (an object aimed at)..
Confine :: Confine (v. i.) To have a common boundary; to border; to lie contiguous; to touch; -- followed by on or with.
Caress :: Caress (n.) An act of endearment; any act or expression of affection; an embracing, or touching, with tenderness..
Touching :: Touching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Touc.
Touch :: Touch (v.) 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..
Retoucher :: Retoucher (n.) One who retouches.
Perstringe :: Perstringe (v. t.) To criticise; to touch upon.
Reach :: Reach (n.) The act of stretching or extending; extension; power of reaching or touching with the person, or a limb, or something held or thrown; as, the fruit is beyond my reach; to be within reach of cannon shot..
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..
Retouch :: Retouch (v. t.) To touch again, or rework, in order to improve; to revise; as, to retouch a picture or an essay..
Knock-knee :: Knock-knee (n.) A condition in which the knees are bent in so as to touch each other in walking; inknee.
Tickle :: Tickle (v. t.) To touch lightly, so as to produce a peculiar thrilling sensation, which commonly causes laughter, and a kind of spasm which become dengerous if too long protracted..
Touched :: Touched (imp. & p. p.) of Touc.
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