Word Meanings - TOUCHDOWN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of touching the football down behind the opponents' goal .

• Touch-needle
  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
  Paper steeped in saltpeter, which burns slowly, and is used as a match for firing gunpowder, and the like.
• Touchstone
  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.
• 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.

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