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Touch-needle
n.
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A small bar of gold and silver, either pure, or alloyed in some known proportion with copper, for trying the purity of articles of gold or silver by comparison of the streaks made by the article and the bar on a touchstone.
Touch-paper
n.
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Paper steeped in saltpeter, which burns slowly, and is used as a match for firing gunpowder, and the like.
Touchstone
n.
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Lydian stone; basanite; -- so called because used to test the purity of gold and silver by the streak which is left upon the stone when it is rubbed by the metal. See Basanite.
Touchstone
n.
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Any test or criterion by which the qualities of a thing are tried.
Touchwood
n.
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Wood so decayed as to serve for tinder; spunk, or punk.
Touchwood
n.
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Dried fungi used as tinder; especially, the Polyporus igniarius.
Touchy
a.
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Peevish; irritable; irascible; techy; apt to take fire.
Tough
superl.
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Having the quality of flexibility without brittleness; yielding to force without breaking; capable of resisting great strain; as, the ligaments of animals are remarkably tough.
Tough
superl.
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Not easily broken; able to endure hardship; firm; strong; as, tough sinews.
Tough
superl.
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Not easily separated; viscous; clammy; tenacious; as, tough phlegm.
Tough
superl.
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Stiff; rigid; not flexible; stubborn; as, a tough bow.
Tough
superl.
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Severe; violent; as, a tough storm.
Tough-cake
n.
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See Tough-pitch (b).
Toughened
imp. & p. p.
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of Toughen
Toughening
p. pr. & vb. n.
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of Toughen
Toughen
v. i. & t.
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To grow or make tough, or tougher.
Tough-head
n.
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The ruddy duck.
Toughish
a.
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Tough in a slight degree.
Toughly
adv.
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In a tough manner.
Toughness
n.
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The quality or state of being tough.
Tough-pitch
n.
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The exact state or quality of texture and consistency of well reduced and refined copper.
Tough-pitch
n.
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Copper so reduced; -- called also tough-cake.
Touite
n.
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The wood warbler.
Toupee
n.
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Alt. of Toupet
Toupet
n.
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A little tuft; a curl or artificial lock of hair.
Toupet
n.
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A small wig, or a toppiece of a wig.
Toupettit
n.
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The crested titmouse.
Tour
n.
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A tower.
Tour
v. t.
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A going round; a circuit; hence, a journey in a circuit; a prolonged circuitous journey; a comprehensive excursion; as, the tour of Europe; the tour of France or England.
Tour
v. t.
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A turn; a revolution; as, the tours of the heavenly bodies.