Word Meanings - TACTUAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to the sense, 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.

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• DERIVATIVE
  Obtained by derivation; derived; not radical, original, or fundamental; originating, deduced, or formed from something else; secondary; as, a derivative conveyance; a derivative word. Derivative circulation, a modification of the circulation found
• SENSE
  A faculty, possessed by animals, of perceiving external objects by means of impressions made upon certain organs (sensory or sense organs) of the body, or of perceiving changes in the condition of the body; as, the senses of sight, smell, hearing,
• DIFFUSIVENESS
  The quality or state of being diffusive or diffuse; extensiveness; expansion; dispersion. Especially of style: Diffuseness; want of conciseness; prolixity. The fault that I find with a modern legend, it its diffusiveness. Addison.
• DIFFUSE
  To pour out and cause to spread, as a fluid; to cause to flow on all sides; to send out, or extend, in all directions; to spread; to circulate; to disseminate; to scatter; as to diffuse information. Thence diffuse His good to worlds and
• DIFFUSED
  Spread abroad; dispersed; loose; flowing; diffuse. It grew to be a widely diffused opinion. Hawthorne. -- Dif*fus"ed*ly, adv. -- Dif*fus"ed*ness, n.
• DIFFUSATE
  Material which, in the process of catalysis, has diffused or passed through the separating membrane.
• ENTIRELY
  1. In an entire manner; wholly; completely; fully; as, the trace is entirely lost. Euphrates falls not entirely into the Persian Sea. Raleigh. 2. Without alloy or mixture; truly; sincerely. To highest God entirely pray. Spenser.
• TOUCHING
  Affecting; moving; pathetic; as, a touching tale. -- Touch"ing*ly, adv.
• TOUCHY
  Peevish; irritable; irascible; techy; apt to take fire. It may be said of Dryden that he was at no time touchy about personal attacks. Saintsbury.
• TOUCHBACK
  The act of touching the football down by a player behind his own goal line when it received its last impulse from an opponent; -- distinguished from safety touchdown.
• TOUCH-NEEDLE
  A small bar of gold and silver, either pure, or alloyed in some known proportion with copper, for trying the purity of articles of gold or silver by comparison of the streaks made by the article and the bar on a touchstone.
• DIFFUSER
  One who, or that which, diffuses.
• TACTUAL
  Of or pertaining to the sense, 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.
• DERIVATIONAL
  Relating to derivation. Earle.
• DIFFUSENESS
  The quality of being diffuse; especially, in writing, the use of a great or excessive number of word to express the meaning; copiousness; verbosity; prolixity.
• DERIVATION
  The operation of deducing one function from another according to some fixed law, called the law of derivation, as the of differentiation or of integration. (more info) 1. A leading or drawing off of water from a stream or source. T. Burnet. 2.
• TOUCHHOLE
  The vent of a cannot or other firearm, by which fire is communicateed to the powder of the charge.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• DIFFUSIBLE
  Capable of passing through animal membranes by osmosis. (more info) 1. Capable of flowing or spreading in all directions; that may be diffused.
• DIFFUSIVELY
  In a diffusive manner.
• INSENSE
  To make to understand; to instruct. Halliwell.
• MISDERIVE
  1. To turn or divert improperly; to misdirect. Bp. Hall. 2. To derive erroneously.
• NONSENSE
  1. That which is not sense, or has no sense; words, or language, which have no meaning, or which convey no intelligible ideas; absurdity. 2. Trifles; things of no importance. Nonsense verses, lines made by taking any words which occur,
• SELF-DIFFUSIVE
  Having power to diffuse itself; diffusing itself. Norris.
• CARTOUCH
  An oval figure on monuments, and in papyri, containing the name of a sovereign. (more info) cartoccio, cornet, cartouch, fr. L. charta paper. See 1st Card, and A roll or case of paper, etc., holding a charge for a firearm; a cartridge. A cartridge