Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Touch \Touch\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Touched}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Touching}.] [F. toucher, OF. touchier, tuchier; of Teutonic
   origin; cf. OHG. zucchen, zukken, to twitch, pluck, draw, G.
   zukken, zukken, v. intens. fr. OHG. ziohan to draw, G.
   ziehen, akin to E. tug. See {Tuck}, v. t., {Tug}, and cf.
   {Tocsin}, {Toccata}.]
   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. [Obs.]

            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.

             [They] 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, . . . [to] 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.

   17. (Geom.) To be tangent to. See {Tangent}, a.

   18. To lay a hand upon for curing disease.

   {To touch a sail} (Naut.), to bring it so close to the wind
      that its weather leech shakes.

   {To touch the wind} (Naut.), to keep the ship as near the
      wind as possible.

   {To touch up}, to repair; to improve by touches or
      emendation.