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▸ verb: (transitive) To make physical contact with; to bring the hand, finger or other part of the body into contact with.
▸ verb: (transitive) To come into (involuntary) contact with; to meet or intersect.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To come into physical contact, or to be in physical contact.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To make physical contact with a thing.
▸ verb: (transitive) To physically disturb; to interfere with, molest, or attempt to harm through contact.
▸ verb: (transitive) To make intimate physical contact with a person.
▸ verb: (transitive or reflexive) To sexually excite with the fingers; to finger or masturbate.
▸ verb: (transitive) To cause to be briefly in contact with something.
▸ verb: (transitive) To physically affect in specific ways implied by context.
▸ verb: (transitive) To consume, or otherwise use.
▸ verb: (intransitive) Of a ship or its passengers: to land, to make a short stop (at).
▸ verb: (transitive, now historical) To lay hands on (someone suffering from scrofula) as a form of cure, as formerly practised by English and French monarchs.
▸ verb: (intransitive, obsolete) To fasten; to take effect; to make impression.
▸ verb: (nautical) To bring (a sail) so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes.
▸ verb: (intransitive, nautical) To be brought, as a sail, so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes.
▸ verb: (nautical) To keep the ship as near (the wind) as possible.
▸ verb: Primarily non-physical senses.
▸ verb: (transitive) To imbue or endow with a specific quality.
▸ verb: (transitive, archaic) To deal with in speech or writing; to mention briefly, to allude to.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To deal with in speech or writing; briefly to speak or write (on or upon something).
▸ verb: (transitive) To concern, to have to do with.
▸ verb: (transitive) To affect emotionally; to bring about tender or painful feelings in.
▸ verb: (transitive, dated) To affect in a negative way, especially only slightly.
▸ verb: (transitive, Scottish history) To give royal assent to by touching it with the sceptre.
▸ verb: (transitive, slang) To obtain money from, usually by borrowing (from a friend).
▸ verb: (transitive, always passive) To disturb the mental functions of; to make somewhat insane; often followed with "in the head".
▸ verb: (transitive, in negative constructions) To be on the level of; to approach in excellence or quality.
▸ verb: (transitive) To come close to; to approach.
▸ verb: (transitive, computing) To mark (a file or document) as having been modified.
▸ verb: To try; to prove, as with a touchstone.
▸ verb: To mark or delineate with touches; to add a slight stroke to with the pencil or brush.
▸ verb: (obsolete) To infect; to affect slightly.
▸ verb: To strike; to manipulate; to play on.
▸ verb: To perform, as a tune; to play.
▸ verb: To influence by impulse; to impel forcibly.
▸ noun: An act of touching, especially with the hand or finger.
▸ noun: The faculty or sense of perception by physical contact.
▸ noun: The style or technique with which one plays a musical instrument.
▸ noun: (music) The particular or characteristic mode of action, or the resistance of the keys of an instrument to the fingers.
▸ noun: A distinguishing feature or characteristic.
▸ noun: A little bit; a small amount.
▸ noun: The part of a sports field beyond the touchlines or goal-lines.
▸ noun: A relationship of close communication or understanding.
▸ noun: The ability to perform a task well; aptitude.
▸ noun: (obsolete) Act or power of exciting emotion.
▸ noun: (obsolete) An emotion or affection.
▸ noun: (obsolete) Personal reference or application.
▸ noun: A single stroke on a drawing or a picture.
▸ noun: (obsolete) A brief essay.
▸ noun: (obsolete) A touchstone; hence, stone of the sort used for touchstone.
▸ noun: (obsolete) Examination or trial by some decisive standard; test; proof; tried quality.
▸ noun: (shipbuilding) The broadest part of a plank worked top and but, 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.
▸ noun: The children's game of tag.
▸ noun: (bell-ringing) A set of changes less than the total possible on seven bells, i.e. less than 5,040.
▸ noun: (slang) An act of borrowing or stealing something; a request for money.
▸ noun: (slang) The extent to which a person is interested or affected; the amount of outlay on something.
▸ noun: (UK, plumbing, dated) Tallow.
▸ noun: Form; standard of performance.
▸ noun: (Australian rules football) A disposal of the ball during a game, i.e. a kick or a handball.
▸ noun: (chiefly Australia) touch football (a variant of rugby league that does not involve tackling)
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