Print my preface in such form as, in the booksellers' phrase, will make
a sixpenny touch.
Swift.
13. A touchstone; hence, stone of the sort used for touchstone. [Obs.]
" Now do I play the touch." Shak.
A neat new monument of touch and alabaster.
Fuller.
14. Hence, examination or trial by some decisive standard; test; proof;
tried quality.
Equity, the true touch of all laws.
Carew.
Friends of noble touch .
Shak.
15. (Mus.) The particular or characteristic mode of action, or the
resistance of the keys of an instrument to the fingers; as, a heavy
touch, or a light touch; also, the manner of touching, striking, or
pressing the keys of a piano; as, a legato touch; a staccato touch.
16. (Shipbilding) The broadest part of a plank worked top and but (see
Top and but, under Top, n.), 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. J. Knowles.
17. (Football) That part of the field which is beyond the line of flags
on either side. Encyc. of Rural Sports.