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The sense of touch; feeling. Did you suppose that I could not make myself sensible to tact as well as sight Southey. Now, sight is a very refined tact. J. Le Conte.

ble of being touched; tangible. [R.] "They [women] being created to be both tractable and tactable." Massinger.

Full of tact; characterized by a discerning sense of what is right, proper, or judicious.

See Tactics.

Of or pertaining to the art of military and naval tactics. -- Tac"tic*al*ly, adv.

One versed in tactics; hence, a skillful maneuverer; an adroit manager.

order for battle, and performing military and naval evolutions. It is divided into grand tactics, or the tactics of battles, and elementary tactics, or the tactics of instruction.

sense, of touch; perceiving, or perceptible, by the touch; capable of being touched; as, tactile corpuscles; tactile sensations. "Tactile sweets." Beaumont. "Tactile qualities." Sir M. Hale. Tactile sense (Physiol.), the sense of touch, or pressure sense. See Touch. The delicacy of the tactile sense varies on differen…

The quality or state of being tactile; perceptibility by touch; tangibleness.

The act of touching; touch; contact; tangency. "External taction." Chesterfield.

Destitute of tact.

e, or the organs, of touch; derived from touch. In the lowest organisms we have a kind of tactual sense diffused over the entire body. Tyndall.

One of a sect of ancient Christians, who, in supposed imitation of the first believers, renounced all their possessions.

The plane between two adjacent bodies of dissimilar rock. Raymond. Contact level, a delicate level so pivoted as to tilt when two parts of a measuring apparatus come into contact with each other; -- used in precise determinations of lengths and in the accurate graduation of instruments.

Act of touching. [Obs.]

Relating to, or characterized by, heterotaxy.

or entire. Buckle. When all external differences have passed away, one element remains intact, unchanged, -- the everlasting basis of our common nature, the human soul. F. W. Robertson.

Not perceptible to the touch.

do or beyond; to exceed in acting. [R.] He has made me heir to treasures Would make me outact a real window's whining. Otway.

Of pertaining to, or characterized by, parataxis.