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1. IMG:content-0648.png:[blocks in formation] If. B. Taylor , Northern Travel, p. 43. 21. To fall upon; strike; affect; impre . any air of music touch their ears, You shall perceive them make a mutual stand. Shak ., M. of V., v. 1. 76. What of sweet before Hath touch'd my sense flat seems to this. Milton , P. L., ix. 987. 22. To affect or move mentally or emotionally; fill with pa ion or tender feeling; affect or move, as with pity; hence, to melt; soften. He is touch'd To the noble heart. Shak ., W. T., iii. 2. 222. He weeps again; His heart is touch'd , sure, with remorse. Fletcher, Wife for a Month, iv. 1. Tremendous scene! that gen'ral horror gave, But touch'd with joy the bosoms of the brave. Pope , Iliad, xiii. 435. 23. To make an impre ion on; have an effect on; act on. Its face must be. so hard that a file will not touch it. J. Moxon, Mech. Exercises. 24. To influence by impulse; impel forcibly. No decree of mine Concurring to nece itate his fall, Or touch with lightest moment of impulse His free will. discourse; refer cursorily or in pa ing: commonly with on or upon. Whenne the Sonne is Est in the part yes, toward Paradys terrestre, it is thanne mydnyght in oure parties o this half, for the rowndene e of the Erthe, of the whiche I have towched to zou before. Mandeville, Travels, p. 303. If the antiquaries have touched upon it, they have immediately quitted it. Add is on. The attitude and bearing of the law in this respect, on which I intend to touch in quite general terms. Nineteenth Century , XXVI. 841. As soon as he hath touched on any science or study, he immediately seems to himself to have mastered it. Bp . Atterbury , Sermons, I. v. Whenever she touch'd on me This brother had laugh'd her down. Tennyson, Maud, xix. 6. 6. To bow or salute by touching the hat or сар. [Prov. Eng.]-7t. To rob. [Thieves' slang.]-8t. To stand the test. As in London saith a Iuellere, Which brought from thence golde oore to us here, Whereof was fyned mettal good and clene, As they touch , no better could be seene. Hakluyt's Voyages, I. 199. And now you are brought to the test; touch right now, soldier, Now shew the manly purene of thy mettle. Fletcher, Loyal Subject, i. 5. 9t. To have or take effect; act. touch body that are freely movable, especially in the tips of the fingers. It is the most fundamental and least specialized or localized of the senses. See tactile corpuscles, under corpuscle. Th' ear, Taste, touch , and smell, pleased from thy table rise. Shak ., T. of A., i. 2. 132. By touch , hard, soft, rough, smooth, we do discern: By touch , sweet pleasure and sharp pain we try. Sir J. Davies, Immortal. of Soul, xviii. Touch is. the sense by which mechanical force is appreciated, and it presents a strong resemblance to hearing, in which the sensation is excited by intermittent pre ures on the auditory organ. Encyc. Brit ., XXIII. 478. All the senses are but modifications of touch . W. Wallace, Epicureanism, p. 96. 2. Mental or moral feeling; moral perception or appreciation. Can it be That men should live with such unfeeling souls, Without or touch or conscience of religion? IMG:content-0649.png:[blocks in formation] Never touch [was] well welcome to thy hand Unle I. touch'd. Shak . , C. of E., ii. 2. 118. But O, for the touch of a vanished hand, And the sound of a voice that is still! Tennyson, Break, break, break. 4. Figuratively, a close relation of mutual confidence, sympathy, interest, or the like; sympathy; accord or harmony in relation to common interests: as, to be out of touch with the times; to keep in touch with the people. The European in Morocco feels that when he is in company with a Barbary Jew he is in touch with Europe. The Academy, June 1, 1889, p. 371. We want, with our brethren of the working cla , that which we have largely lost the Church I fear not le than those who are outside of it that expre ive thing which we call touch. New Princeton Rev., II. 47. 5. Pre ure, or application of pre ure; impact; a slight stroke, tap, push, or the like: often used figuratively. They [the Austral i ans) pray to the Deuill, which hath conference with an Indian vnseene, from a peece of wood; and to him and all the rest many times by night he toucheth the face and breast with cold touches , but they could neuer learne what he was. Purchas , Pilgrimage, p. 864. A little touch of their adversary gives all that boisterous force the foil. B. Jonson, Alchemist, To the Reader. Vineyards red with the touch of October. The grapes were gone, but the plants had a color of their own. H. James, Jr., Little Tour, p. 173. 6. A slight or brief sound.-7. The impre ion conveyed to the mind by contact or pre ure; effect on the sense of contact with something; feel: as, an object with a slimy touch.-8. A jog; a hint; a reminder; a slight experience. The king, your master, knows their disposition very well; a small touch will put him in mind of them. Bacon . I... related unto you yt fear full accidente, or rather judgmente, ye Lord pleased to lay on London Bridge, by fire and therin gave you a touch of my great lo . Sherley , quoted in Bradford's Plymouth Plantation, p. 308. 9. A stroke or dash as with a pen, pencil, or brush, literally or figuratively: as, a touch of bright color; also, any slight added effort or action, such as that expended on some comp ended pleted work in order to give it finish. What strained touches rhetoric can lend. Shak ., Sonnets, lxxxii. It tutors nature; artificial strife Lives in these touches , livelier than life. Shak., T. of A., i. 1. 38. Strong waters. will touch upon gold that will not touch upon silver. 10. Naut., of the sails of a square-rigged ve el, to be in such a position that their weather leeches shake from the ship being steered so close to the wind. To touch and go. (a) To touch lightly or briefly and pa on; dip in or stop for a moment here and there in course. As the text doth rise, I will touch and go a little in every place. Latimer , 1st Sermon bef. Edw. VI., 1549. (b) Naut ., to graze the bottom with the keel for a moment, as a ve el under sail, without le ening of the speed. To touch on or upon. See def. 5.- Touch and trade papers. See paper .