Definition of touch

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Touch (v.) 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..

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Tactile :: Tactile (a.) Of or pertaining to the organs, or the sense, of touch; perceiving, or perceptible, by the touch; capable of being touched; as, tactile corpuscles; tactile sensations..
Earthy :: Earthy (a.) Without luster, or dull and roughish to the touch; as, an earthy fracture..
Retouch :: Retouch (v. t.) To touch again, or rework, in order to improve; to revise; as, to retouch a picture or an essay..
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..
Stroke :: Stroke (v. t.) A mark or dash in writing or printing; a line; the touch of a pen or pencil; as, an up stroke; a firm stroke..
Touch :: Touch (v.) Act or power of exciting emotion.
Caress :: Caress (n.) To treat with tokens of fondness, affection, or kindness; to touch or speak to in a loving or endearing manner; to fondle..
Touch-needle :: Touch-needle (n.) 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..
Reach :: Reach (v. t.) To strike, hit, or touch with a missile; as, to reach an object with an arrow, a bullet, or a shell..
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..
Tag :: Tag (v.) A child's play in which one runs after and touches another, and then runs away to avoid being touched..
Kiss :: Kiss (v. t.) To touch gently, as if fondly or caressingly..
Touch-box :: Touch-box (n.) A box containing lighted tinder, formerly carried by soldiers who used matchlocks, to kindle the match..
Toe :: Toe (v. t.) To touch or reach with the toes; to come fully up to; as, to toe the mark..
Finisher :: Finisher (n.) Something that gives the finishing touch to, or settles, anything..
Nudge :: Nudge (v. t.) To touch gently, as with the elbow, in order to call attention or convey intimation..
Raw :: Raw (superl.) Not worked in due form; in the natural state; untouched by art; unwrought.
Tropic :: Tropic (n.) One of the two small circles of the celestial sphere, situated on each side of the equator, at a distance of 23? 28/, and parallel to it, which the sun just reaches at its greatest declination north or south, and from which it turns again toward the equator, the northern circle being called the Tropic of Cancer, and the southern the Tropic of Capricorn, from the names of the two signs at which they touch the ecliptic..
Osculate :: Osculate (v. i.) To touch closely. See Osculation, 2..
Kissingcrust :: Kissingcrust (n.) The portion of the upper crust of a loaf which has touched another loaf in baking.
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