Word Meanings - TOUCHING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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• 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.
• Touch-me-not
  See Impatiens.
• 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.

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