contact

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

CONTACT, noun [Latin , to touch. See Touch.] A touching; touch; close union or juncture of bodies. Two bodies come in contact when they meet without any sensible intervening space; the parts that touch are called the points of contact
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