Emily Dickinson Lexicon

touch, n. [OFr touche, stroke, blow, touch.]

1. Actual contact; handling with fingers or hands.
2. The ability to come into physical contact.
3. Act of striking a musical instrument in order to produce sound.

touch, v. [OFr tochier, to touch.]

1. Come into physical contact with.
2. Caress; fondle; handle slightly with fingers or hands.
3. Reach; attain; come to.
4. Encounter; discover; arrive at; [fig.] heal; bless; hallow; sanctify; consecrate.
5. Play; strum; strike in order to create sound.
6. Move; disarm; affect emotionally; soften feelings of.
7. Induce; motivate; influence; impel; prompt.
8. Use any portion of.
9. Sip; bring into contact with the lips.
10. [Fig.] Turn to gold by contacting with finger like the fabled King Midas.

tourist, n. [ME tour, tool for describing a circle, a turner's wheel.] (webplay: turn).

Traveller; one who makes a round-trip journey.

toward (-s), adv. [see toward, prep.]

Forth; forward; onward; ahead.

toward (-s), prep. [OE tóweard.] (webplay: docility, eye, near).

1. To; closer to; in the direction of.
2. Approaching; heading to; facing.
3. In; in reference to; compared with.
4. Against.
5. To; for; with.

towering, adv. [OE torr + -ing.] (webplay: high).

Loftily; extremely; unattainably; in an elevated manner.

town (-s), n. [OE tuun.]

1. Village; small settlement; inhabited place; community; cluster of homes.
2. Place; location.
3. Walled place; hedge; [fig.] season; winter.
4. Villagers; inhabitants of a settlement or community.
5. Phrase. “Out of town”: gone; not at home.

toy (-s), n. [etymology unknown.] (webplay: children, gold, stay).

Child's plaything; thing for amusement with no real value.

toy, (-ed), v. [see toy, n.]

Play; trifle.

trace, n. [Fr. trace.]

Remains; mark left behind; sign of former existence.