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touching |
5 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Touch \Touch\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Touched}; p. pr & vb n. {Touching}.] [F. toucher, OF touchier, tuchier of Teutonic origin; cf OHG. zucchen zukken to twitch, pluck, draw, G. zukken zukken v. intens. fr OHG. ziohan to draw, G. ziehen akin to E. tug. See {Tuck}, v. t., {Tug}, and cf {Tocsin}, {Toccata}.] 1. 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 Him thus intent Ithuriel with his spear Touched lightly. --Milton. 2. To perceive by the sense of feeling. Nothing but body can be touched or touch. --Greech. 3. To come to to reach; to attain to The god, vindictive, doomed them never more- Ah men unblessed! -- to touch their natal shore. --Pope. 4. To try to prove, as with a touchstone. [Obs.] Wherein I mean to touch your love indeed. --Shak. 5. To relate to to concern; to affect. The quarrel toucheth none but us alone. --Shak. 6. To handle, speak of or deal with to treat of Storial thing that toucheth gentilesse. --Chaucer. 7. To meddle or interfere with as I have not touched the books. --Pope. 8. To affect the senses or the sensibility of to move to melt; to soften. What of sweet before Hath touched my sense flat seems to this and harsh. --Milton. The tender sire was touched with what he said --Addison. 9. To mark or delineate with touches; to add a slight stroke to with the pencil or brush. The lines, though touched but faintly, are drawn right --Pope. 10. To infect; to affect slightly. --Bacon. 11. To make an impression on to have effect upon Its face . . . so hard that a file will not touch it --Moxon. 12. To strike; to manipulate; to play on as to touch an instrument of music. [They] touched their golden harps. --Milton. 13. To perform, as a tune; to play. A person is the royal retinue touched a light and lively air on the flageolet. --Sir W. Scott. 14. To influence by impulse; to impel forcibly. `` No decree of mine, . . . [to] touch with lightest moment of impulse his free will,'' --Milton. 15. To harm, afflict, or distress. Let us make a covenant with thee, that thou wilt do us no hurt, as we have not touched thee. --Gen. xxvi. 28, 29. 16. To affect with insanity, especially in a slight degree; to make partially insane; -- rarely used except in the past participle. She feared his head was a little touched. --Ld. Lytton. 17. (Geom.) To be tangent to See {Tangent}, a. 18. To lay a hand upon for curing disease. {To touch a sail} (Naut.), to bring it so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes. {To touch the wind} (Naut.), to keep the ship as near the wind as possible. {To touch up}, to repair; to improve by touches or emendation. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Touching \Touch"ing\, a. Affecting; moving pathetic; as a touching tale. -- {Touch"ing*ly}, adv From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Touching \Touch"ing\, prep. Concerning; with respect to Now as touching things offered unto idols. --1 Cor. viii. 1. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Touching \Touch"ing\, n. The sense or act of feeling; touch. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: touching adj : arousing affect; "the homecoming of the released hostages was an affecting scene"; "poignant grief cannot endure forever"; "his gratitude was simple and touching" [syn: {affecting}, {poignant}] n 1: the event of something coming in contact with the body; "he longed for the touch of her hand"; "the cooling touch of the night air" [syn: {touch}] 2: the act of putting two things together with no space between them "at his touch the room filled with lights" [syn: {touch}]
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