Definition of touching

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Touching (a.) Affecting; moving; pathetic; as, a touching tale..

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Moving :: Moving (a.) Exciting movement of the mind; adapted to move the sympathies, passions, or affections; touching; pathetic; as, a moving appeal..
Feel :: Feel (n.) A sensation communicated by touching; impression made upon one who touches or handles; as, this leather has a greasy feel..
Taction :: Taction (n.) The act of touching; touch; contact; tangency.
Tangent :: Tangent (a.) Touching; touching at a single poin.
Contact :: Contact (n.) A close union or junction of bodies; a touching or meeting.
Touching :: Touching (n.) The sense or act of feeling; touch.
Examine :: Examine (v. t.) To interrogate as in a judicial proceeding; to try or test by question; as, to examine a witness in order to elicit testimony, a student to test his qualifications, a bankrupt touching the state of his property, etc..
About :: About (prep.) Concerning; with regard to; on account of; touching.
Contaction :: Contaction (n.) Act of touching.
Near :: Near (adv.) Close to one's interests, affection, etc.; touching, or affecting intimately; intimate; dear; as, a near friend..
Caress :: Caress (n.) An act of endearment; any act or expression of affection; an embracing, or touching, with tenderness..
Bitangent :: Bitangent (a.) Possessing the property of touching at two points.
Infallible :: Infallible (a.) Incapable of error in defining doctrines touching faith or morals. See Papal infallibility, under Infallibility..
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..
Contingency :: Contingency (n.) Union or connection; the state of touching or contact.
Assault :: Assault (n.) An apparently violent attempt, or willful offer with force or violence, to do hurt to another; an attempt or offer to beat another, accompanied by a degree of violence, but without touching his person, as by lifting the fist, or a cane, in a threatening manner, or by striking at him, and missing him. If the blow aimed takes effect, it is a battery..
Conjoined :: Conjoined (a.) Joined together or touching.
Handling :: Handling (n.) A touching, controlling, managing, using, etc., with the hand or hands, or as with the hands. See Handle, v. t..
Touch :: 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..
Clear :: Clear (v. t.) To leap or pass by, or over, without touching or failure; as, to clear a hedge; to clear a reef..
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