Word Meanings - PERSTRINGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To touch; to graze; to glance on. 2. To criticise; to touch upon. Evelyn.

Related words: (words related to PERSTRINGE)

• CRITICISER
  One who criticises; a critic.
• TOUCHY
  Peevish; irritable; irascible; techy; apt to take fire. It may be said of Dryden that he was at no time touchy about personal attacks. Saintsbury.
• TOUCHING
  Affecting; moving; pathetic; as, a touching tale. -- Touch"ing*ly, adv.
• TOUCHBACK
  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.
• TOUCH-NEEDLE
  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.
• TOUCHHOLE
  The vent of a cannot or other firearm, by which fire is communicateed to the powder of the charge.
• GRAZE
  Etym: 1. To feed or supply with grass; to furnish pasture for. A field or two to graze his cows. Swift. 2. To feed on; to eat ; to eat grass from (a pasture); to browse. The lambs with wolves shall graze the verdant mead. Pope. 3. To tend
• GLANCE
  A name given to some sulphides, mostly dark-colored, which have a brilliant metallic luster, as the sulphide of copper, called copper glance. Glance coal, anthracite; a mineral composed chiefly of carbon. -- Glance cobalt, cobaltite, or gray cobalt.
• TOUCHINESS
  The quality or state of being touchy peevishness; irritability; irascibility.
• TOUCHSTONE
  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. 2. Fig.:
• TOUCH-ME-NOT
  See Impatiens. Squirting cucumber. See under Cucumber.
• CRITICISE
  1. To examine and judge as a critic; to pass literary or artistic judgment upon; as, to criticise an author; to criticise a picture. 2. To express one's views as to the merit or demerit of; esp., to animadvert upon; to find fault with;
• TOUCHDOWN
  The act of touching the football down behind the opponents' goal . Safety touchdown. See under Safety.
• GRAZER
  One that grazes; a creature which feeds on growing grass or herbage. The cackling goose, Close grazer, finds wherewith to ease her want. J. Philips.
• TOUCH-PAPER
  Paper steeped in saltpeter, which burns slowly, and is used as a match for firing gunpowder, and the like.
• TOUCHABLE
  Capable of being touched; tangible. -- Touch"a*ble*ness, n.
• TOUCH
  zucchen, zukken, to twitch, pluck, draw, G. zukken, zukken, v. intens. fr. OHG. ziohan to draw, G. ziehen, akin to E. tug. See Tuck, 1. To come in contact with; to hit or strike lightly against; to extend the hand, foot, or the like, so as to reach
• TOUCH-BOX
  A box containing lighted tinder, formerly carried by soldiers who used matchlocks, to kindle the match.
• TOUCHWOOD
  1. Wood so decayed as to serve for tinder; spunk, or punk. 2. Dried fungi used as tinder; especially, the Polyporus igniarius.
• TOUCHILY
  In a touchy manner.
• EYEGLANCE
  A glance of eye.
• CARTOUCH
  An oval figure on monuments, and in papyri, containing the name of a sovereign. (more info) cartoccio, cornet, cartouch, fr. L. charta paper. See 1st Card, and A roll or case of paper, etc., holding a charge for a firearm; a cartridge. A cartridge
• OVERGLANCE
  To glance over.
• RETOUCH
  To correct or change, as a negative, by handwork. (more info) 1. To touch again, or rework, in order to improve; to revise; as, to retouch a picture or an essay.
• HYPERCRITICISE
  To criticise with unjust severity; to criticise captiously.