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To walk in a wavering, unsteady manner; to toddle; to topple. [Colloq.]

Trembling or tottering, as if about to fall; un steady. [Colloq. U.S.]

Unsteady; dizzy; tottery. [Obs.or Prov. Eng.] Sir W. Scott. For yet his noule [head] was totty of the must. Spenser.

Totty. [Obs.] My head is totty of my swink to-night. Chaucer.

Any one of numerous species of fruit-eating birds of tropical America belonging to Ramphastos, Pteroglossus, and allied genera of the family Ramphastidæ. They have a very large, but light and thin, beak, often nearly as long as the body itself. Most of the species are brilliantly colored with red, yellow, white, and bl…

A small toucan.

To come in contact with; to hit or strike lightly against; to extend the hand, foot, or the like, so as to reach or rest on. Him thus intent Ithuriel with his spear Touched lightly. Milton.

A box containing lighted tinder, formerly carried by soldiers who used matchlocks, to kindle the match.

See Impatiens.

icles of gold or silver by comparison of the streaks made by the article and the bar on a touchstone.

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

Capable of being touched; tangible. -- Touch"a*ble*ness, n.

The act of touching the football down by a player behind his own goal line when it received its last impulse from an opponent; -- distinguished from safety touchdown.

The act of touching the football down behind the opponents' goal . Safety touchdown. See under Safety.

The vent of a cannot or other firearm, by which fire is communicateed to the powder of the charge.

In a touchy manner.

The quality or state of being touchy peevishness; irritability; irascibility.

Affecting; moving; pathetic; as, a touching tale. -- Touch"ing*ly, adv.

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.

Wood so decayed as to serve for tinder; spunk, or punk.