Definition of touching

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

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Infallible :: Infallible (a.) Incapable of error in defining doctrines touching faith or morals. See Papal infallibility, under Infallibility..
Near :: Near (adv.) Close to one's interests, affection, etc.; touching, or affecting intimately; intimate; dear; as, a near friend..
English :: English (n.) A twist or spinning motion given to a ball in striking it that influences the direction it will take after touching a cushion or another ball.
Feel :: Feel (n.) A sensation communicated by touching; impression made upon one who touches or handles; as, this leather has a greasy feel..
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..
Explode :: Explode (v. t.) To cause to explode or burst noisily; to detonate; as, to explode powder by touching it with fire..
Flatting :: Flatting (n.) A method of preserving gilding unburnished, by touching with size..
Tangent :: Tangent (a.) Touching; touching at a single poin.
Attiguous :: Attiguous (a.) Touching; bordering; contiguous.
Contaction :: Contaction (n.) Act of touching.
Affecting :: Affecting (a.) Moving the emotions; fitted to excite the emotions; pathetic; touching; as, an affecting address; an affecting sight..
Constat :: Constat (n.) A certificate showing what appears upon record touching a matter in question.
Touching :: Touching (a.) Affecting; moving; pathetic; as, a touching tale..
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..
Palpation :: Palpation (n.) Act of touching or feeling.
Tangency :: Tangency (n.) The quality or state of being tangent; a contact or touching.
Touching :: Touching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Touc.
Interosculant :: Interosculant (a.) Mutually touching or intersecting; as, interosculant circles..
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..
Touchback :: Touchback (n.) The act of touching the football down by a player behind his own goal line when it received its last impulse from an opponent; -- distinguished from safety touchdown.
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