"Touch" is a word in LAW AND LEGAL, ENGLISH

In lnsurance law. To stop at a port If there be liberty granted hy the policy to touch, or to touch and stay, at an intermediate port on the passage, the better opinion now ls that the Insured may trade there, when consistent with the object and the furtherance of the adventure, by breaking bulk, or by discharging and taking in cargo, provided it produces no unnecessary delay, nor enhances nor varies the risk. 3 Kent, Comm. 314

To harm, afflict, or distress.

To come to; to reach; to attain to.

An emotion or affection.

To lay a hand upon for curing disease.

A stroke; as, a touch of raillery; a satiric touch; hence,
animadversion; censure; reproof.

To perceive by the sense of feeling.

To be tangent to. See Tangent, a.

A touchstone; hence, stone of the sort used for touchstone.

To infect; to affect slightly.

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.

To be in contact; to be in a state of junction, so that
no space is between; as, two spheres touch only at points.

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.

To be brought, as a sail, so close to the wind that its
weather leech shakes.

Hence, examination or trial by some decisive standard; test;
proof; tried quality.

To meddle or interfere with; as, I have not touched the
books.

To fasten; to take effect; to make impression.

To affect with insanity, especially in a slight degree;
to make partially insane; -- rarely used except in the past participle.

A hint; a suggestion; slight notice.

A single stroke on a drawing or a picture.

To treat anything in discourse, especially in a slight or
casual manner; -- often with on or upon.

That part of the field which is beyond the line of flags on
either side.

A slight and brief essay.

To strike; to manipulate; to play on; as, to touch an
instrument of music.

A small quantity intermixed; a little; a dash.

Feature; lineament; trait.

To affect the senses or the sensibility of; to move; to
melt; to soften.

To mark or delineate with touches; to add a slight stroke
to with the pencil or brush.

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.

The act of the hand on a musical instrument; bence, in the
plural, musical notes.

The sense by which pressure or traction exerted on the skin
is recognized; the sense by which the properties of bodies are
determined by contact; the tactile sense. See Tactile sense, under
Tactile.

Personal reference or application.

Act or power of exciting emotion.

To handle, speak of, or deal with; to treat of.

To try; to prove, as with a touchstone.

A boys' game; tag.

To perform, as a tune; to play.

To influence by impulse; to impel forcibly.

To make an impression on; to have effect upon.

The act of touching, or the state of being touched; contact.

To relate to; to concern; to affect.