资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Touch \Touch\, v. i.
1. To be in contact; to be in a state of junction, so that no
space is between; as, two spheres touch only at points.
--Johnson.
2. To fasten; to take effect; to make impression. [R.]
Strong waters pierce metals, and will touch upon
gold, that will not touch upon silver. --Bacon.
3. To treat anything in discourse, especially in a slight or
casual manner; -- often with on or upon.
If the antiquaries have touched upon it, they
immediately quitted it. --Addison.
4. (Naut) To be brought, as a sail, so close to the wind that
its weather leech shakes.
{To touch and go} (Naut.), to touch bottom lightly and
without damage, as a vessel in motion.
{To touch at}, to come or go to, without tarrying; as, the
ship touched at Lisbon.
{To touch on} or {upon}, to come or go to for a short time.
[R.]
I made a little voyage round the lake, and touched
on the several towns that lie on its coasts.
--Addison.