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Verb
Primarily physical senses.
(transitive) To make physical contact with; to bring the hand, finger or other part of the body into contact with. [from 14th c.]
(transitive) To come into (involuntary) contact with; to meet or intersect. [from 14th c.]
(intransitive) To come into physical contact, or to be in physical contact. [from 14th c.]
(intransitive) To make physical contact with a thing. [from 14th c.]
(transitive) To physically disturb; to interfere with, molest, or attempt to harmthrough contact. [from 14th c.]
(transitive) To physically affect in specific ways implied by context. [from 15th c.]
(transitive) To consume, or otherwise use. [from 15th c.]
(intransitive) Of a ship or its passengers: to land, to make a shortstop (at). [from 16th c.]
(transitive, now historical) To lay hands on (someone suffering from scrofula) as a form of cure, as formerly practised by English and French monarchs. [from 17th c.]
(intransitive, obsolete) To fasten; to take effect; to make impression.
(nautical) To bring (a sail) so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes.
(intransitive, nautical) To be brought, as a sail, so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes.
(nautical) To keep the ship as near (the wind) as possible.
Primarily non-physical senses.
(transitive) To imbue or endow with a specific quality. [from 14th c.]
(transitive, archaic) To deal with in speech or writing; to mention briefly, to allude to. [from 14th c.]
(intransitive) To deal with in speech or writing; briefly to speak or write (on or upon something). [from 14th c.]
(transitive) To concern, to have to do with. [14th-19th c.]
(transitive) To affect emotionally; to bring about tender or painful feelings in. [from 14th c.]
(transitive, dated) To affect in a negative way, especially only slightly. [from 16th c.]
(transitive, Scottish history) To give royal assent to by touching it with the sceptre. [from 17th c.]
(transitive, slang) To obtain money from, usually by borrowing (from a friend). [from 18th c.]
(transitive, always passive) To disturb the mental functions of; to make somewhat insane; often followed with "in the head". [from 18th c.]
(transitive) To be on the level of; to approach in excellence or quality. [from 19th c.]
(computing) To mark (a file or document) as having been modified.
(obsolete) A touchstone; hence, stone of the sort used for touchstone.
(obsolete) Examination or trial by some decisive standard; test; proof; tried quality.
(music) The particular or characteristic mode of action, or the resistance of the keys of an instrument to the fingers.
(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 sterntimbers at the counters.