Word Meanings - DYSAESTHESIA - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Impairment of any of the senses, esp. of touch.
Related words: (words related to DYSAESTHESIA)
- IMPAIRMENT
The state of being impaired; injury. "The impairment of my health." Dryden. - TOUCHING
Affecting; moving; pathetic; as, a touching tale. -- Touch"ing*ly, adv. - 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. - 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. - 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. - 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. - RETOUCHER
One who retouches. - POLATOUCHE
A flying squirrel native of Northern Europe and Siberia; -- called also minene.