The fact or condition of touching or being touched by something (without implication of intention); physical contact between one person, thing…

Touching, contact. angle of contingence: the infinitesimal angle between the circumference of a circle and its tangent, or between two tangents to…

The meeting or junction of lines, surfaces, or bodies. ? Obsolete.

The action or an act of bringing something towards or in contact with another thing. Also: the fact or an instance of being brought towards or in…

A species of ‘boundage’; a bordering between plots lying side by side.

The state or condition of touching; the mutual relation of two bodies whose external surfaces touch each other. Hence to beor come in (into) contact.

The action of touching, contact.

The quality of being contiguous; contiguity.

= contingence, n. 1. Obsolete.

The condition of touching or being in contact.

The meeting of lines, surfaces, etc.; in Geometry the point of meeting of three or more lines.

Close contact, an instance of this; spec. †(a) the mutual contact of blood vessels (obsolete); (b) Geometry contact of curves or surfaces which…

= abutment, n. 5.

The quality or condition of being tangent; state of contact.

The action or fact of placing a part of the body (esp. the hand or finger) in contact with anything so as to feel it or otherwise interact with it…