Word Meanings - TOUCH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Additional info about word: 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 or rest on. Him thus intent Ithuriel with his spear Touched lightly. Milton. 2. To perceive by the sense of feeling. Nothing but body can be touched or touch. Greech. 3. To come to; to reach; to attain to. The god, vindictive, doomed them never more-Ah, men unblessed! -- to touch their natal shore. Pope. 4. To try; to prove, as with a touchstone. Wherein I mean to touch your love indeed. Shak. 5. To relate to; to concern; to affect. The quarrel toucheth none but us alone. Shak. 6. To handle, speak of, or deal with; to treat of. Storial thing that toucheth gentilesse. Chaucer. 7. To meddle or interfere with; as, I have not touched the books. Pope. 8. To affect the senses or the sensibility of; to move; to melt; to soften. What of sweet before Hath touched my sense, flat seems to this and harsh. Milton. The tender sire was touched with what he said. Addison. 9. To mark or delineate with touches; to add a slight stroke to with the pencil or brush. The lines, though touched but faintly, are drawn right. Pope. 10. To infect; to affect slightly. Bacon. 11. To make an impression on; to have effect upon. Its face . . . so hard that a file will not touch it. Moxon. 12. To strike; to manipulate; to play on; as, to touch an instrument of music. touched their golden harps. Milton. 13. To perform, as a tune; to play. A person is the royal retinue touched a light and lively air on the flageolet. Sir W. Scott. 14. To influence by impulse; to impel forcibly. " No decree of mine, . . . touch with lightest moment of impulse his free will," Milton. 15. To harm, afflict, or distress. Let us make a covenant with thee, that thou wilt do us no hurt, as we have not touched thee. Gen. xxvi. 28, 29. 16. To affect with insanity, especially in a slight degree; to make partially insane; -- rarely used except in the past participle. She feared his head was a little touched. Ld. Lytton.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of TOUCH)

• Communicate
• Adjoin
• join
• touch
• reveal
• disclose
• divulge
• promulgate
• publish
• attach
• co-operate
• unite
• impart
• tell
• announce
• declare
• Contact
• Touch
• contiguity
• continuity
• apposition
• adjunction
• Feeling
• sensation
• contact
• pathos
• tenderness
• impression
• consciousness
• sensibility
• emotion
• sentiment
• passion
• sensitiveness
• Handle
• Feel
• treat
• use
• manage
• manipulate
• wield
• discuss
• Hit
• Strike
• succeed
• chance
• reach
• hazard
• mistake

Related words: (words related to TOUCH)

• TREATMENT
  1. The act or manner of treating; management; manipulation; handling; usage; as, unkind treatment; medical treatment. 2. Entertainment; treat. Accept such treatment as a swain affords. Pope.
• CHANCELLERY
  Chancellorship. Gower.
• HAZARDIZE
  A hazardous attempt or situation; hazard. Herself had run into that hazardize. Spenser.
• SUCCEEDANT
  Succeeding one another; following.
• UNITERABLE
  Not iterable; incapable of being repeated. "To play away an uniterable life." Sir T. Browne.
• PUBLISH
  Etym: 1. To make public; to make known to mankind, or to people in general; to divulge, as a private transaction; to promulgate or proclaim, as a law or an edict. Published was the bounty of her name. Chaucer. The unwearied sun, from day to day,
• SUCCEDANE
  A succedaneum.
• PUBLISHER
  One who publishes; as, a publisher of a book or magazine. For love of you, not hate unto my friend, Hath made me publisher of this pretense. Shak.
• SUCCESS
  1. Act of succeeding; succession. Then all the sons of these five brethren reigned By due success. Spenser. 2. That which comes after; hence, consequence, issue, or result, of an endeavor or undertaking, whether good or bad; the outcome of effort.
• APPOSITION
  The state of two nouns or pronouns, put in the same case, without a connecting word between them; as, I admire Cicero, the orator. Here, the second noun explains or characterizes the first. Growth by apposition , a mode of growth characteristic
• CONTINUITY
  the state of being continuous; uninterupted connection or succession; close union of parts; cohesion; as, the continuity of fibers. Grew. The sight would be tired, if it were attracted by a continuity of glittering objects. Dryden. Law of continuity
• TENDERNESS
  The quality or state of being tender (in any sense of the adjective). Syn. -- Benignity; humanity; sensibility; benevolence; kindness; pity; clemency; mildness; mercy.
• FEELINGLY
  In a feeling manner; pathetically; sympathetically.
• SENSATION
  An impression, or the consciousness of an impression, made upon the central nervous organ, through the medium of a sensory or afferent nerve or one of the organs of sense; a feeling, or state of consciousness, whether agreeable or disagreeable,
• PASSIONAL
  Of or pertaining to passion or the passions; exciting, influenced by, or ministering to, the passions. -- n.
• SUCCESSLESS
  Having no success. Successless all her soft caresses prove. Pope. -- Suc*cess"less*ly, adv. -- Suc*cess"less*ness, n.
• SENTIMENTALLY
  In a sentimental manner.
• WIELDSOME
  Admitting of being easily wielded or managed. Golding.
• CONTACTION
  Act of touching.
• SENTIMENT
  fr. L. sentire to perceive by the senses and mind, to feel, to think. 1. A thought prompted by passion or feeling; a state of mind in view of some subject; feeling toward or respecting some person or thing; disposition prompting to action
• OUTPREACH
  To surpass in preaching. And for a villain's quick conversion A pillory can outpreach a parson. Trumbull.
• CHANDLER
  of candles, LL. candelarius chandler, fr. L. candela candle. See 1. A maker or seller of candles. The chandler's basket, on his shoulder borne, With tallow spots thy coat. Gay. 2. A dealer in other commodities, which are indicated by
• COMPASSIONATELY
  In a compassionate manner; mercifully. Clarendon.
• SPATHOSE
  See SPATHIC
• REPUBLISH
  To publish anew; specifically, to publish in one country (a work first published in another); also, to revive by re Subsecquent to the purchase or contract, the devisor republished his will. Blackstone.
• FOREREACH
  To advance or gain upon; -- said of a vessel that gains upon another when sailing closehauled.
• MISMANAGER
  One who manages ill.
• DISCONTINUITY
  Want of continuity or cohesion; disunion of parts. "Discontinuity of surface." Boyle.
• SELF-IMPARTING
  Imparting by one's own, or by its own, powers and will. Norris.