Word Meanings - ATTINGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To touch lightly. Coles.

Related words: (words related to ATTINGE)

• 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.
• 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.
• 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
• TOUCHDOWN
  The act of touching the football down behind the opponents' goal . Safety touchdown. See under Safety.
• 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-BOX
  A box containing lighted tinder, formerly carried by soldiers who used matchlocks, to kindle the match.
• COLESLAW
  A salad made of sliced cabbage.
• TOUCHWOOD
  1. Wood so decayed as to serve for tinder; spunk, or punk. 2. Dried fungi used as tinder; especially, the Polyporus igniarius.
• LIGHTLY
  1. With little weight; with little force; as, to tread lightly; to press lightly. Yet shall thy grave with rising flowers be drest, And the green turf lie lightly on thy breast. Pope. Him thus intent Ithuriel with his spear Touched lightly. Milton.
• COLESEED
  The common rape or cole.
• COLESTAFF
  See COLSTAFF
• TOUCHILY
  In a touchy manner.
• 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
• 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.
• SLIGHTLY
  1. In a slight manner. 2. Slightingly; negligently. Shak.
• RETOUCHER
  One who retouches.
• POLATOUCHE
  A flying squirrel native of Northern Europe and Siberia; -- called also minene.