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Particular relation.—Speech of touch towards others should 
be sparingly used 5 for discourse ought to be as a field, 
without coming home to any man. Bacon.—[Touche, Fr,] 
A stroke.—Another smart touch of the author we meet 
with in the fifth page, where, without any preparation, he 
breaks out all on a sudden into a vein of poetry. Addison. 
—Animadversion; censure. 
Soon mov’d with touch of blame, thus Eve, 
What words have pass’d thy lips, Adam, severe. Milton. 
Exact performance of agreement.—He was not to expect 
that so perfidious a creature should keep touch with him. 
L'Estrange. —A small quantity intermingled. 
Madam, I have a touch of your condition. 
That cannot brook the accent of reproof. Shafcspeare. 
A hint; slight notice given.—The king, your master, 
knows their disposition very well; a small touch will put 
him in mind of them. Bacon. —A cant word for a slight 
essay.—Print my preface in such a form as, in the booksel- 
lere’ phrase, will make a sixpenny touch. Swift. 
TO'UCHABLE, adj. Tangible ; that may be touched. 
TOUCHAN, a city of China, of the second rank, in 
Koeitchoo. Lat. 25. 46. N. long. 107. 3. E. 
TOUCHE (Claude Guymond de la), a French poet, was 
born in 1719, and entered among the Jesuits; but a comedy, 
acted in 1748, occasioned his alienation from their frater¬ 
nity. The slight of this body was resented by him in a po¬ 
etical epistle published in 1766, and entitled “ Les Soupirs 
du Cloitre, ou le Triomphe du Fanatisme,” in which he has 
exhibited the Jesuits in the blackest colours. Upon aban¬ 
doning their society, he attached himself to the theatre; and 
in 1757 introduced on the stage his tragedy “ Iphigenie en 
Tauride,” the subject of which he borrowed from Euripides. 
This play, though chargeable with many defects, was well 
received, and has retained its reputation. Whilst he was 
preparing another tragedy on the story of Regulus, he fell a 
sacrifice to a pulmonic disorder in 1760. Among his MSS. 
was found his “ Epitre a l’Amitie,” which has been read 
with pleasure. Nouv. Diet. Hist. 
TOUCHE, a small river of Martinique, which enters the 
sea in the bay of its name. 
TOUCH-HOLE, s. The hole through which the fire is 
conveyed to the powder in the gun.—In a piece of ord¬ 
nance, if you speak in the touch-hole, and another lay his 
ear to the mouth of the piece, the sound is far better heard 
than in the open air. Bacon. 
TO'UCHINESS. s. Peevishness ; irascibility.—My 
friends resented it as a motion not guided with such discre¬ 
tion as the touchiness of those times required. King Charles. 
TO'UCHING, prep. [This word is originally a partici¬ 
ple of touchi] With respect, regard, or relation to. It has 
often the particle as before it, of which there seems to be no 
use. Touching is now obsolete, though more concise than 
the mode of speech now adopted. 
Touching our person, seek we no revenge; 
But we our kingdom’s safety must so tender. 
Whose ruin you three sought, that to her laws 
We do deliver you. Shakspeare. 
TO'UCHING, adj. Pathetic; affecting; moving. 
TO'UCHINGLY, adv. With feeling emotion ; in a pa¬ 
thetic manner.—This last fable shows how touchingly the 
poet argues in love affairs. Garth. 
TO'UCHMENOT, s. [cucumis agrestis, Lat.] An herb. 
Ainsworth. 
TO'UCHSTONE, s. [pierre dc touche, French.] Stone 
by which metals are examined.—Chilon would say, that 
gold was tried with the touchstone, and men with gold. 
Bacon. —Any test or criterion.—Time is the surest judge of 
truth: I am not vain enough to think I have left no faults in 
this, which that touchstone will not discover. Dry den. 
TO'UCHWOOD, s. Rotten wood used to catch the fire 
struck from the flint.—To make white powder, the powder 
of rotten willows is best; spunk, or touchwood prepared, 
might make it russet. Brown. 
TO'UCHY, adj. Peevish; irritable; irascible.—Was ever 
such a touchy man heard of? Beaum and FI. 
TOUCY, a small town in the central part of France, de¬ 
partment of the Yonne. Population 1900; 15 miles west- 
by-south of Auxerre. 
TOUGET, a small town in the south-west of France, de¬ 
partment of the Gers, near the river Macaoue. Population 
1800; 17 miles north-east of Auch. 
TOUGH, a parish of Scotland, in Aberdeenshire ; 5 miles 
long, and 3 broad. Population 589. 
TOUGH, adj. [coh, Sax. from the Goth, tihan, ducere. 
Serenius.] Yielding to flexure or extension without fracture; 
not brittle.—Of bodies some are fragile, and some are tough, 
and not fragile. Bacon. —Stiff; not easily flexible. 
The bow he drew, 
And almost join’d the horns of the tough eugh. Dry den. 
Not easily injured or broken. 
O sides you are too tough ! 
Will you yet hold ? Shakspeare. 
Viscous; clammy; ropy; tenacious. Difficult: this is 
an ancient usage of Ihe word, and is still a colloquial one; 
as, a tough piece of business.—If that I speke of love, or 
make it tough. Chaucer. 
To TO'UGHEN, v. a. To make tough. 
To TO'UGHEN, v. n. To grow tough.—Hops off the 
kiln lay three weeks to cool, give and toughen, else they 
will break to powder. Mortimer. 
TO'UGHNESS, s. [cohneppe, Sax.] Not brittleness; 
flexibility. 
A well-temper’d sword is bent at will. 
But keeps the native toughness of the steel. Dry den. 
Viscocity; tenacity; clamminess; glutinousness.—In the 
first stage the viscosity or toughness of the fluids should 
be taken off by dilutents. Arbuthnot. —Firmness against 
injury.—I confess me knit to thy deserving with cables of 
perdurable toughness. Shakspeare. 
TOUINTCHOSE, a post in the eastern part of Chinese 
Tartary. Lat. 41. 40. N. long. 111. 14. E. 
TOVIS, or Dreikirchen, a small town of Transylvania, 
in the county of Lower Weissenburg, near the Marosch. 
TOUKIE, a city of China, of the second rank, in Quang- 
see. Lat. 23. 10. N. long. 106. 49. E. 
TOUL, a town in the north-east of France, in the depart- 
mant of the Meurthe. It is situated on the Moselle, in a 
fertile valley, and surrounded by a chain of hills, covered 
with vineyards. Population about 7000; 14 miles west of 
Nancy, and 40 south-south-west of Metz. Lat. 48. 40. 32 
N. long. 5. 53. 16. E. 
TOULON, a small town in the east of France, depart¬ 
ment of the Saone and Loire, on the river Arroux. It is 
joined to a village of the same name on the other side of the 
river, by a bridge of thirteen arches. Population 1600; 20 
miles west-by-north of Charolles, and 22 south-south-west 
of Autun. 
TOULON, a well known sea-port in the south-east of 
France, situated in the department of the Var, on a bay of 
the Mediterranean. It is built at the foot of a ridge of lofty, 
and in general arid mountains, which shelter it from the 
north. Its environs yield vines, figs, and other products of a 
warm latitude. Viewed from a distance, Toulon presents 
nothing remarkable. 
TOULOUSE, a large town in the south of France, for¬ 
merly the capital of Upper Languedoc, now of the depart¬ 
ment of the Upper Garonne, situated on the right bank of 
the Garonne. In a historical sense it acquired an unfortu¬ 
nate title to notice, by an obstinate battle fought on 10th 
April 1814, between the British under Lord Wellington, 
and the French under Soult; neither commander having 
been apprised of the abdication of Buonaparte. The British 
troops were successful, but suffered severely: their loss in 
killed and wounded was between 4000 and 5000 men. The 
climate of Toulouse is warm for a northern constitution. The 
environs produce maize, wheat, vines, and other fruits of a 
southern 
