Touch off.
- 1. Delineate lightly, touch, sketch, mark out hastily.
- 2. Discharge, apply the match to.
Touch on. Touch upon. Mention or treat of (slightly), glance at, speak of in passing, allude to.
Touchstone, n.
- 1. Basanite, black jasper, Lydian stone.
- 2. Test, criterion, proof, ordeal, assay, touch.
Touch up.
- 1. Repair, improve by slight touches, mend, rub up.
- 2. Excite, arouse.
Touchwood, n. Spunk, punk, agaric, German tinder.
Touchy, a. Peevish, snappish, waspish, cross, testy, irritable, fretful, splenetic, techy, irascible, petulant, choleric, peppery, hot-tempered, quick-tempered, like tinder, like touchwood.
Touch, a.
- 1. Adhesive, tenacious, cohesive, flexible, without brittleness.
- 2. Coriaceous, leathery.
- 3. Viscous, clammy, tenacious, ropy, stringy, sticky.
- 4. Stiff, rigid, inflexible.
- 5. Strong, firm, hardy.
- 6. Refractory, stubborn, obdurate, callous, hard.
- 7. (Colloq.) Difficult, hard, hard to deal with, troublesome, formidable.
- 8. (Colloq.) Severe (as a storm), violent.