Toucan

too'kan, n. An omnivorous climbing bird of tropical Amer., of several species, remarkable for the enormous size of its light, cellular [F. Pg. & Braz. tucano.] loach, tuch, [touched (tucht), touching.] To come in contact with; to extend the hand, foot, etc., so as to reach or Toucan. rest on; to perceive by the sense of feeling to come to, reach, attain to to relate to, concern to handle, speak of, or deal with gently or slightly; to meddle or interfere with: to affect the senses or the sensibility of to move; to mark or delineate slightly; to make an impre ion am, fame, far, pa or opera, fare 6nd, TOW on; to strike (an instrument of music); to perform (a tune), play to influence by impulse to afflict or distre . — v.i. To be in contact; to treat anything slightly in discourse, — n. Act of touching, or state of being touched; contact; the sense of feeling or common sensation, one of the 5 senses power of exciting the affections; an emotion or affection; personal reference or application; a stroke; animadversion; censure; reproof; a single stroke on a drawing or picture; feature; lineament; act of the hand on a musical instrument musical notes a small quantity intermixed a a hint suggestion slight notice; examination or trial by some decisive standard; test; proof. (Mus.) Particular or characteristic mode of action; also, the manner of touching, striking, or pre ing the keys of a pianoforte. [F. toucher, Sp., Pg., and Proven, tocar, OD. tocken, to touch, OHG. zucchen, to draw quickly, twitch, Goth. tiuhan, L. ducere, to draw; tuck, tow, duke, tocsin.] — To touch up. To repair, or to improve by slight touches or emendations. —To and go. (Naut.) To touch bottom, as a ship in sailing, without much decrease of speed. To almost meet with an accident or collision, have a close shave. — To at. To come or go to, without tarrying. — Touch'able, a. Capable of being touched tangible. — Touching, p. a. Affecting; moving; pathetic. prep. Concerning; relating to; with respect to. — Touch'-hole, n. The vent of a cannon or other species of fire-arms, by which fire communicated to the powder. — T.-menot,ing-cucumber.n. A plant—of stone,the genusn. (Min.)Impatiens A variety the squirt-of extremely compact silicious schist, used for ascertaining the purity of gold and silver by the streak impre ed on the stone. Hence, any test or criterion. —wood, n. A soft white substance into which wood changed by the action of certain fungi, used like tinder for taking, holding, and communicating fire; spunk.