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Mutually touching or intersecting; as, interosculant circles.

To kiss together to touch. See Osculate.

), with trifoliate leaves, and greenish-white berries. It is exceedingly poisonous to the touch for most persons. -- To pipe in an ivy leaf, to console one's self as best one can. [Obs.] Chaucer. -- West Indian ivy, a climbing plant of the genus Marcgravia.

confusedly together on a table, to be gathered up singly by a hooked instrument, without touching or disturbing the rest of the pile. See Spilikin.

To push or shake with the elbow or hand; to jostle; esp., to push or touch, in order to give notice, to excite one's attention, or to warn. Now leaps he upright, jogs me, and cries: Do you see Yonder well- favored youth Donne. Sudden I jogged Ulysses, who was laid Fast by my side. Pope.

To touch gently, as if fondly or caressingly. When the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees. Shak.

The portion of the upper crust of a loaf which has touched another loaf in baking. Lamb. A massy fragment from the rich kissingcrust that hangs like a fretted cornice from the upper half of the loaf. W. Howitt.

A condition in which the knees are bent in so as to touch each other in walking; inknee.

Having the legs bent inward so that the knees touch in walking. [Written also knack-kneed.]

Playing on the surface; touching lightly; gliding over. "A lambent flame." Dryden. "A lambent style." Beaconsfield.

A stroke in which a ball touches the top of the net in passing over.

Sipping; touching lightly. [R.] Landor.

essing heavily or hard upon; hence, having an easy graceful manner; delicate; as, a light touch; a light style of execution.

d the green turf lie lightly on thy breast. Pope. Him thus intent Ithuriel with his spear Touched lightly. Milton.

To touch with the lips; to put the lips to; hence, to kiss. The bubble on the wine which breaks Before you lip the glass. Praed. A hand that kings Have lipped and trembled kissing. Shak.

locate (the land granted by) a land warrant. That part of the body in which the sense of touch is located. H. Spencer.

sures. Dryden. Lydian stone, a flint slate used by the ancients to try gold and silver; a touchstone. See Basanite.

ulay. Some malignant power upon my life. Shak. Something deleterious and malignant as his touch. Hawthorne.

A variety of bitumen, viscid and tenacious, like pitch, unctuous to the touch, and exhaling a bituminous odor.

Dry and harsh to the touch, as chalk.