Touch
in fine arts, the peculiar handling usual to an artist, and by which his work may be known. In music, the resistance made to the fingers by the keys of a pianoforte or organ. Also, the peculiar manner in which a player presses of a pianoforte or organ. Also, the pethe keyboard, whether light, pearly, the examination of the mouth of the womb by actual contact of the hand or the examination of the mouth of the fingers.
In physiology, the sense through which properties of bodies. In a wide application, it is sometimes called the general sense, because by it we become coneral sense, because by it we become conare not the objects of smell, sight, taste, or hearing, which are called the special senses; even these, however, are held by modern biologists to be highly speby modern biologists to be highly specalled the "mother of all the senses." In a more limited application, touch is applied to that modification of general sensibility which is restricted to the tegumentary surface or to some special portion of it, and which serves to convey definite ideas as to the form, size, number, weight, temperature, hardness, softness, etc., of objects brought within its TOULON and the blind, who have to depend largecognizance. These sensations are received by the terminations of the cutaneous nerves and thence conveyed to the brain. The sense of touch is distributed over the surface of the body, but is much more acute in some parts than in others, of great improvement and development; e. g., in the hand. It is also capable ly on the sense of touch for guidance, acquire extraordinarily delicate and accurate powers of perception with the fingers; difference of form, size, consistence, and other characters, being readily recognized that are quite inappreciable to special education. those who possess good vision, without anthropidæ have both the hands and feet In comparative physiology, the lower thickly set with tactile papillæ, and the surface of the prehensile tail, which some possess is furnished with them in abundance. Other organs of touch exist in dance. Other organs of touch exist in the lips and nostrils are probably the and of certain rodents. In the Ungulata, the lips and nostrils are probably the birds, tactile papillæ have been discovis especially so with the Proboscidea. In ered in the feet, and they are also presered in the feet, and they are also presare found in the tentacles of the Cephalopoda and Gasteropoda, the palpi and antennæ of insects, and the palpi of the Arachnida.