To hit, especially with the fist.
To cover with cloth, leather, or other material; to bandage, patch, or mend with a clout.
To stud with nails, as a timber, or a boot sole.
To guard with an iron plate, as an axletree.
To join or patch clumsily.
A clout nail.
The center of the butt at which archers shoot; probably once a piece of white cloth or a nail head.
Influence or effectiveness, especially political.
A home run.
A blow with the hand.
To strike; to manipulate; to play on.
To make intimate physical contact with a person.
To cause to be briefly in contact with something.
To deal with in speech or writing; briefly to speak or write (on or upon something).
To make physical contact with; to bring the hand, finger or other part of the body into contact with.
To perform, as a tune; to play.
To be brought, as a sail, so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes.
To come into physical contact, or to be in physical contact.
To come into (involuntary) contact with; to meet or intersect.
To concern, to have to do with.
To make physical contact with a thing.
To lay hands on (someone suffering from scrofula) as a form of cure, as formerly practised by English and French monarchs.
To mark or delineate with touches; to add a slight stroke to with the pencil or brush.
To imbue or endow with a specific quality.
To influence by impulse; to impel forcibly.
To bring (a sail) so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes.
To physically disturb; to interfere with, molest, or attempt to harm through contact.
To try; to prove, as with a touchstone.
To give royal assent to by touching it with the sceptre.
To be on the level of; to approach in excellence or quality.
Of a ship or its passengers: to land, to make a short stop (at).
To physically affect in specific ways implied by context.
To consume, or otherwise use.
To sexually excite with the fingers; to finger or masturbate.
To keep the ship as near (the wind) as possible.
To affect emotionally; to bring about tender or painful feelings in.
To mark (a file or document) as having been modified.
To obtain money from, usually by borrowing (from a friend).
To disturb the mental functions of; to make somewhat insane; often followed with "in the head".
To come close to; to approach.
The ability to perform a task well; aptitude.
The children's game of tag.
A set of changes less than the total possible on seven bells, i.e. less than 5,040.
An act of borrowing or stealing something.
The part of a sports field beyond the touchlines or goal-lines.
The faculty or sense of perception by physical contact.
A distinguishing feature or characteristic.
A single stroke on a drawing or a picture.
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 style or technique with which one plays a musical instrument.
A disposal of the ball during a game, i.e. a kick or a handball.
An act of touching, especially with the hand or finger.
The particular or characteristic mode of action, or the resistance of the keys of an instrument to the fingers.
A little bit; a small amount.
A relationship of close communication or understanding.
Form; standard of performance.