Word Meanings - BITANGENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Possessing the property of touching at two points.

• TOUCHNEEDLE
  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.
• TOUCHPAPER
  Paper steeped in saltpeter, which burns slowly, and is used as a match for firing gunpowder, and the like.
• Possessing
  of Possess
• Possession
  The act or state of possessing, or holding as one's own.
• Possessionary
  Of or pertaining to possession; arising from possession.
• Possessioner
  A possessor; a property holder.
• Touchiness
  The quality or state of being touchy peevishness; irritability; irascibility.
• Possessival
  Of or pertaining to the possessive case; as, a possessival termination.

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