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Caress :: Caress (n.) An act of endearment; any act or expression of affection; an embracing, or touching, with tenderness..

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

Contiguous :: Contiguous (a.) In actual contact; touching; also, adjacent; near; neighboring; adjoining..

Taction :: Taction (n.) The act of touching; touch; contact; tangency.

Feel :: Feel (v. t.) To touch; to handle; to examine by touching; as, feel this piece of silk; hence, to make trial of; to test; often with out..

Attiguous :: Attiguous (a.) Touching; bordering; contiguous.

Attrectation :: Attrectation (n.) Frequent handling or touching.

Reach :: Reach (n.) The act of stretching or extending; extension; power of reaching or touching with the person, or a limb, or something held or thrown; as, the fruit is beyond my reach; to be within reach of cannon shot..

Touch :: Touch (v.) The act of touching, or the state of being touched; contact..

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..

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..

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.

Jackstraw :: "Jackstraw (n.) One of a set of straws of strips of ivory, bone, wood, etc., for playing a child's game, the jackstraws being thrown confusedly together on a table, to be gathered up singly by a hooked instrument, without touching or disturbing the rest of the pile. See Spilikin..

Tangent :: Tangent (a.) Touching; touching at a single poin.

Flatting :: Flatting (n.) A method of preserving gilding unburnished, by touching with size..

Infallible :: Infallible (a.) Incapable of error in defining doctrines touching faith or morals. See Papal infallibility, under Infallibility..

Contaction :: Contaction (n.) Act of touching.

Handling :: Handling (n.) A touching, controlling, managing, using, etc., with the hand or hands, or as with the hands. See Handle, v. t..

Clear :: Clear (v. t.) To leap or pass by, or over, without touching or failure; as, to clear a hedge; to clear a reef..

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..

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