| • | To come in contact with; to hit or strike lightly against; to extend the hand, foot, or the like, so as to reach or rest on. |
| • | To perceive by the sense of feeling. |
| • | To come to; to reach; to attain to. |
| • | To try; to prove, as with a touchstone. |
| • | To relate to; to concern; to affect. |
| • | To handle, speak of, or deal with; to treat of. |
| • | To meddle or interfere with; as, I have not touched the books. |
| • | To affect the senses or the sensibility of; to move; to melt; to soften. |
| • | To mark or delineate with touches; to add a slight stroke to with the pencil or brush. |
| • | To infect; to affect slightly. |
| • | To make an impression on; to have effect upon. |
| • | To strike; to manipulate; to play on; as, to touch an instrument of music. |
| • | To perform, as a tune; to play. |
| • | To influence by impulse; to impel forcibly. |
| • | To harm, afflict, or distress. |
| • | To affect with insanity, especially in a slight degree; to make partially insane; -- rarely used except in the past participle. |
| • | To be tangent to. See Tangent, a. |
| • | To lay a hand upon for curing disease. |
| • | To be in contact; to be in a state of junction, so that no space is between; as, two spheres touch only at points. |
| • | To fasten; to take effect; to make impression. |
| • | To treat anything in discourse, especially in a slight or casual manner; -- often with on or upon. |
| • | To be brought, as a sail, so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes. |
| • | The act of touching, or the state of being touched; contact. |
| • | 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. |
| • | Act or power of exciting emotion. |
| • | An emotion or affection. |
| • | Personal reference or application. |
| • | A stroke; as, a touch of raillery; a satiric touch; hence, animadversion; censure; reproof. |
| • | A single stroke on a drawing or a picture. |
| • | Feature; lineament; trait. |
| • | The act of the hand on a musical instrument; bence, in the plural, musical notes. |
| • | A small quantity intermixed; a little; a dash. |
| • | A hint; a suggestion; slight notice. |
| • | A slight and brief essay. |
| • | A touchstone; hence, stone of the sort used for touchstone. |
| • | Hence, examination or trial by some decisive standard; test; proof; tried quality. |
| • | 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. |
| • | 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. |
| • | That part of the field which is beyond the line of flags on either side. |
| • | A boys' game; tag. |
