Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Tactile

Tactile , adjective

[Latin tactilis, from tangere, tactum, to touch: compare French tactile.]

Of or pertaining to the organs, or the sense, of touch; perceiving, or perceptible, by the touch; capable of being touched; as, tactile corpuscles; tactile sensations.
Tactile sweets. — Beaumont
Tactile qualities. — Sir M. Hale
The delicacy of the tactile sense varies on different parts of the skin; it is geatest on the forehead, temples and back of the forearm. — H. N. Martin
Collocations (1)
Tactile (Physiology) , sense (Physiology), the sense of touch, or pressure sense. See Touch.