Index of English words, starting with "to"

(1) - Totteringly (adv.) In a tottering manner.

(1) - Tottery (a.) Trembling or vaccilating, as if about to fall; unsteady; shaking.

(1) - Toucan (n.) A modern constellation of the southern hemisphere.
(2) - Toucan (n.) Any one of numerous species of fruit-eating birds of tropical America belonging to Ramphastos, Pteroglossus, and allied genera of the family Ramphastidae. They have a very large, but light and thin, beak, often nearly as long as the body itself. Most of the species are brilliantly colored with red, yellow, white, and black in striking contrast.

(1) - Touch (v. t.) To infect; to affect slightly.
(2) - Touch (v. t.) 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.
(3) - Touch (a.) To lay a hand upon for curing disease.
(4) - Touch (v. t.) To be tangent to. See Tangent, a.
(5) - Touch (v. t.) To affect with insanity, especially in a slight degree; to make partially insane; -- rarely used except in the past participle.
(6) - Touch (v. t.) To harm, afflict, or distress.
(7) - Touch (v. t.) To influence by impulse; to impel forcibly.
(8) - Touch (v. t.) To perform, as a tune; to play.
(9) - Touch (v. i.) To fasten; to take effect; to make impression.
(10) - Touch (v. t.) To make an impression on; to have effect upon.
(11) - Touch (v. i.) To treat anything in discourse, especially in a slight or casual manner; -- often with on or upon.
(12) - Touch (v. t.) To mark or delineate with touches; to add a slight stroke to with the pencil or brush.
(13) - Touch (v. t.) To affect the senses or the sensibility of; to move; to melt; to soften.
(14) - Touch (v. t.) To meddle or interfere with; as, I have not touched the books.
(15) - Touch (v. t.) To handle, speak of, or deal with; to treat of.
(16) - Touch (v. t.) To relate to; to concern; to affect.
(17) - Touch (v. t.) To try; to prove, as with a touchstone.
(18) - Touch (v. t.) To come to; to reach; to attain to.
(19) - Touch (v. t.) To perceive by the sense of feeling.
(20) - Touch (v. t.) To strike; to manipulate; to play on; as, to touch an instrument of music.
(21) - Touch (v.) Feature; lineament; trait.
(22) - Touch (n.) That part of the field which is beyond the line of flags on either side.
(23) - Touch (v.) 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.
(24) - Touch (v.) 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.
(25) - Touch (v.) Hence, examination or trial by some decisive standard; test; proof; tried quality.
(26) - Touch (v.) A touchstone; hence, stone of the sort used for touchstone.
(27) - Touch (v.) A slight and brief essay.
(28) - Touch (v.) A hint; a suggestion; slight notice.
(29) - Touch (v. i.) To be in contact; to be in a state of junction, so that no space is between; as, two spheres touch only at points.
(30) - Touch (v.) The act of the hand on a musical instrument; bence, in the plural, musical notes.
(31) - Touch (n.) A boys' game; tag.
(32) - Touch (v.) A single stroke on a drawing or a picture.
(33) - Touch (v.) A stroke; as, a touch of raillery; a satiric touch; hence, animadversion; censure; reproof.
(34) - Touch (v.) Personal reference or application.
(35) - Touch (v.) An emotion or affection.
(36) - Touch (v.) Act or power of exciting emotion.
(37) - Touch (v.) 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.
(38) - Touch (v.) The act of touching, or the state of being touched; contact.
(39) - Touch (v. i.) To be brought, as a sail, so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes.
(40) - Touch (v.) A small quantity intermixed; a little; a dash.

(1) - Touch-me-not (n.) Squirting cucumber. See under Cucumber.
(2) - Touch-me-not (n.) See Impatiens.