Possible Definitions:
1. Touch (v. t.) To compare with; of be equal to; -- usually with a negative; as, he held that for good cheer nothing could touch an open fire.
2. Touch (v. t.) To induce to give or lend; to borrow from; as, to touch one for a loan; hence, to steal from.
3. Touch (n.) A set of changes less than the total possible on seven bells, that is, less than 5,040.
4. Touch (n.) An act of borrowing or stealing.
5. Touch (n.) Tallow; -- a plumber's term.
6. Touch (v. t.) 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.
7. Touch (v. t.) To perceive by the sense of feeling.
8. Touch (v. t.) To come to; to reach; to attain to.
9. Touch (v. t.) To try; to prove, as with a touchstone.
10. Touch (v. t.) To relate to; to concern; to affect.
11. Touch (v. t.) To handle, speak of, or deal with; to treat of.
12. Touch (v. t.) To meddle or interfere with; as, I have not touched the books.
13. Touch (v. t.) To affect the senses or the sensibility of; to move; to melt; to soften.
14. Touch (v. t.) To mark or delineate with touches; to add a slight stroke to with the pencil or brush.
15. Touch (v. t.) To infect; to affect slightly.
16. Touch (v. t.) To make an impression on; to have effect upon.
17. Touch (v. t.) To strike; to manipulate; to play on; as, to touch an instrument of music.
18. Touch (v. t.) To perform, as a tune; to play.
19. Touch (v. t.) To influence by impulse; to impel forcibly.
20. Touch (v. t.) To harm, afflict, or distress.
21. Touch (v. t.) To affect with insanity, especially in a slight degree; to make partially insane; -- rarely used except in the past participle.
22. Touch (v. t.) To be tangent to. See Tangent, a.
23. Touch (a.) To lay a hand upon for curing disease.
24. Touch (v. i.) To be in contact; to be in a state of junction, so that no space is between; as, two spheres touch only at points.
25. Touch (v. i.) To fasten; to take effect; to make impression.
26. Touch (v. i.) To treat anything in discourse, especially in a slight or casual manner; -- often with on or upon.
27. Touch (v. i.) To be brought, as a sail, so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes.
28. Touch (v.) The act of touching, or the state of being touched; contact.
29. Touch (v.) 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.
30. Touch (v.) Act or power of exciting emotion.
31. Touch (v.) An emotion or affection.
32. Touch (v.) Personal reference or application.
33. Touch (v.) A stroke; as, a touch of raillery; a satiric touch; hence, animadversion; censure; reproof.
34. Touch (v.) A single stroke on a drawing or a picture.
35. Touch (v.) Feature; lineament; trait.
36. Touch (v.) The act of the hand on a musical instrument; bence, in the plural, musical notes.
37. Touch (v.) A small quantity intermixed; a little; a dash.
38. Touch (v.) A hint; a suggestion; slight notice.
39. Touch (v.) A slight and brief essay.
40. Touch (v.) A touchstone; hence, stone of the sort used for touchstone.
41. Touch (v.) Hence, examination or trial by some decisive standard; test; proof; tried quality.
42. Touch (v.) 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.
43. Touch (v.) 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.
44. Touch (n.) That part of the field which is beyond the line of flags on either side.
45. Touch (n.) A boys' game; tag.
