英文英文字典
英文英文字典
古腾堡计划中的在线英语-英语词典
字典
Touch
(n.)
That part of the field which is beyond the line of flags on
either side.
Touch
(n.)
A boys' game; tag.
Touch-box
(n.)
A box containing lighted tinder, formerly carried by
soldiers who used matchlocks, to kindle the match.
Touch-me-not
(n.)
See Impatiens.
Touch-me-not
(n.)
Squirting cucumber. See under Cucumber.
Touch-needle
(n.)
A small bar of gold and silver, either pure, or
alloyed in some known proportion with copper, for trying the purity of
articles of gold or silver by comparison of the streaks made by the
article and the bar on a touchstone.
Touch-paper
(n.)
Paper steeped in saltpeter, which burns slowly, and is
used as a match for firing gunpowder, and the like.
Touchable
(a.)
Capable of being touched; tangible.
Touchback
(n.)
The act of touching the football down by a player behind
his own goal line when it received its last impulse from an opponent;
-- distinguished from safety touchdown.
Touchdown
(n.)
The act of touching the football down behind the
opponents' goal .
Touched
(imp. & p. p.)
of Touch
Touchhole
(n.)
The vent of a cannot or other firearm, by which fire is
communicateed to the powder of the charge.
Touchily
(adv.)
In a touchy manner.
Touchiness
(n.)
The quality or state of being touchy peevishness;
irritability; irascibility.
Touching
(p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Touch
Touching
(a.)
Affecting; moving; pathetic; as, a touching tale.
Touching
(prep.)
Concerning; with respect to.
Touching
(n.)
The sense or act of feeling; touch.
Touchstone
(n.)
Lydian stone; basanite; -- so called because used to
test the purity of gold and silver by the streak which is left upon the
stone when it is rubbed by the metal. See Basanite.
Touchstone
(n.)
Any test or criterion by which the qualities of a thing
are tried.