Definition of touch

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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..

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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..
Polatouche :: Polatouche (n.) A flying squirrel (Sciuropterus volans) native of Northern Europe and Siberia; -- called also minene.
Interosculant :: Interosculant (a.) Mutually touching or intersecting; as, interosculant circles..
Touch :: Touch (v.) The sense by which pressure or traction exerted on the skin is recognized; the sense by which the properties of bodies are determined by contact; the tactile sense. See Tactile sense, under Tactile..
Touch :: Touch (v.) Hence, examination or trial by some decisive standard; test; proof; tried quality..
Tangency :: Tangency (n.) The quality or state of being tangent; a contact or touching.
Harsh :: Harsh (a.) disagreeable to the touch.
Impatiens :: Impatiens (n.) A genus of plants, several species of which have very beautiful flowers; -- so called because the elastic capsules burst when touched, and scatter the seeds with considerable force. Called also touch-me-not, jewelweed, and snapweed. I. Balsamina (sometimes called lady's slipper) is the common garden balsam..
Stricture :: Stricture (n.) A stroke; a glance; a touch.
Touchdown :: Touchdown (n.) The act of touching the football down behind the opponents' goal .
Brush :: Brush (n.) To touch in passing, or to pass lightly over, as with a brush..
Tap :: Tap (v. t.) To strike with a slight or gentle blow; to touch gently; to rap lightly; to pat; as, to tap one with the hand or a cane..
Flank :: Flank (v. i.) To border; to touch.
Cartouches :: Cartouches (pl. ) of Cartouc.
Cartouch :: Cartouch (n.) A military pass for a soldier on furlough.
Dab :: Dab (v. i.) To strike or touch gently, as with a soft or moist substance; to tap; hence, to besmear with a dabber..
Contact :: Contact (n.) A close union or junction of bodies; a touching or meeting.
Touch :: Touch (v. t.) To relate to; to concern; to affect.
Retouch :: Retouch (n.) A partial reworking,as of a painting, a sculptor's clay model, or the like..
Feeler :: Feeler (n.) One of the sense organs or certain animals (as insects), which are used in testing objects by touch and in searching for food; an antenna; a palp..
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