Primarily physical senses. • To make physical contact with; to bring the hand, finger or other part of the body into contact with. • To come into (involuntary) contact with; to meet or intersect. • To come into physical contact, or to be in physical contact. • To make physical contact with a thing. • To physically disturb; to interfere with, molest, or attempt to harm through contact. • To make intimate physical contact with a person. • To sexually excite with the fingers; to finger or masturbate. • To have sexual intercourse with • To cause to be briefly in physical contact with something. • To physically affect in specific ways implied by context. • To begin to consume, or otherwise use. • Of a ship or its passengers: to land, to make a short stop (at). • To lay hands on (someone suffering from scrofula) as a form of cure, as formerly practised by English and French monarchs. • To fasten; to take effect; to make impression. • To bring (a sail) so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes. • To be brought, as a sail, so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes. • To keep the ship as near (the wind) as possible. • Primarily non-physical senses. • To imbue or endow with a specific quality. • To deal with in speech or writing; to mention briefly, to allude to. • To deal with in speech or writing; briefly to speak or write (on or upon something). • To concern, to have to do with. • To engage with, to be involved with. • To affect emotionally; to bring about tender or painful feelings in. • To affect in a negative way, especially only slightly. • To give royal assent to by touching it with the sceptre. • To obtain money from, usually by borrowing (from a friend). • To disturb the mental functions of; to make somewhat insane; often followed with "in the head". • To be on the level of; to approach in excellence or quality. • To come close to; to approach. • To mark (a file or document) as having been modified. • To try; to prove, as with a touchstone. • To mark or delineate with touches; to add a slight stroke to with the pencil or brush. • To infect; to affect slightly. • To strike; to manipulate; to play on. • To perform, as a tune; to play. • To influence by impulse; to impel forcibly.