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..
Bitangent :: Bitangent (a.) Possessing the property of touching at two points.
Touchdown :: Touchdown (n.) The act of touching the football down behind the opponents' goal .
Infallible :: Infallible (a.) Incapable of error in defining doctrines touching faith or morals. See Papal infallibility, under Infallibility..
Affecting :: Affecting (a.) Moving the emotions; fitted to excite the emotions; pathetic; touching; as, an affecting address; an affecting sight..
Contingency :: Contingency (n.) Union or connection; the state of touching or contact.
Attrectation :: Attrectation (n.) Frequent handling or touching.
Interosculant :: Interosculant (a.) Mutually touching or intersecting; as, interosculant circles..
Contaction :: Contaction (n.) Act of touching.
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..
Palpation :: Palpation (n.) Act of touching or feeling.
Taction :: Taction (n.) The act of touching; touch; contact; tangency.
Near :: Near (adv.) Close to one's interests, affection, etc.; touching, or affecting intimately; intimate; dear; as, a near friend..
Clear :: Clear (v. t.) To leap or pass by, or over, without touching or failure; as, to clear a hedge; to clear a reef..
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..
Touching :: Touching (prep.) Concerning; with respect to.
Touching :: Touching (a.) Affecting; moving; pathetic; as, a touching tale..
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..
About :: About (prep.) Concerning; with regard to; on account of; touching.
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..
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