An act of touching, especially with the hand or finger.

The faculty or sense of perception by physical contact.

The style or technique with which one plays a musical instrument.

(music) The particular or characteristic mode of action, or the resistance of the keys of an instrument to the fingers.

A distinguishing feature or characteristic.

A little bit; a small amount.

The part of a sports field beyond the touchlines or goal-lines.

A relationship of close communication or understanding.

The ability to perform a task well; aptitude.

A single stroke on a drawing or a picture.

(shipbuilding) The broadest part of a plank worked top and but, 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.

The children's game of tag.

(bell-ringing) A set of changes less than the total possible on seven bells, i.e. less than 5,040.

(slang) An act of borrowing or stealing something; a request for money.

(slang) The extent to which a person is interested or affected; the amount of outlay on something.

Form; standard of performance.

(Australian rules football) A disposal of the ball during a game, i.e. a kick or a handball.

Make physical contact with something or someone, come into contact with something or someone involuntarily, physically disturb or interfere with something or someone, make intimate physical contact with someone, sexually excite someone with the fingers, cause something to briefly be in contact with something, physically affect something in specific ways implied by context, consume or use something, land or make a short stop (at) as a ship or its passengers, lay hands on someone suffering from scrofula as a form of cure, bring a sail so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes, be brought as a sail so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes, keep the ship as near the wind as possible.

Imbue or endow with a specific quality, deal with in speech or writing, concern or have to do with, affect emotionally, give royal assent to, obtain money from, disturb the mental functions of, be on the level of or approach in excellence or quality, come close to, and mark as modified in computing.

To try; to prove, as with a touchstone.

To mark or delineate with touches; to add a slight stroke to with the pencil or brush.

To strike; to manipulate; to play on.

To perform, as a tune; to play.

To influence by impulse; to impel forcibly.