Vocabulary : Touchily to Tough

Touchily : In a touchy manner.
Touchiness : The quality or state of being touchy peevishness; irritability; irascibility.
Touching : of Touch ;; Affecting; moving; pathetic; as, a touching tale. ;; Concerning; with respect to. ;; The sense or act of feeling; touch.
Touch-me-not : See Impatiens. ;; Squirting cucumber. See under Cucumber.
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. ;; Any test or criterion by which the qualities of a thing are tried.
Touchwood : Wood so decayed as to serve for tinder; spunk, or punk. ;; Dried fungi used as tinder; especially, the Polyporus igniarius.
Touchy : Peevish; irritable; irascible; techy; apt to take fire.
Tough : 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. ;; Not easily broken; able to endure hardship; firm; strong; as, tough sinews. ;; Not easily separated; viscous; clammy; tenacious; as, tough phlegm. ;; Stiff; rigid; not flexible; stubborn; as, a tough bow. ;; Severe; violent; as, a tough storm.

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