From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Feel \Feel\ (f[=e]l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Felt} (f[e^]lt); p.
pr. & vb. n. {Feeling}.] [AS. f[=e]lan; akin to OS.
gif[=o]lian to perceive, D. voelen to feel, OHG. fuolen, G.
f["u]hlen, Icel. f[=a]lma to grope, and prob. to AS. folm
palm of the hand, L. palma. Cf. {Fumble}, {Palm}.]
1. To perceive by the touch; to take cognizance of by means
of the nerves of sensation distributed all over the body,
especially by those of the skin; to have sensation excited
by contact of (a thing) with the body or limbs.
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Who feel
Those rods of scorpions and those whips of steel.
--Creecn.
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2. To touch; to handle; to examine by touching; as, feel this
piece of silk; hence, to make trial of; to test; often
with out.
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Come near, . . . that I may feel thee, my son.
--Gen. xxvii.
21.
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He hath this to feel my affection to your honor.
--Shak.
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3. To perceive by the mind; to have a sense of; to
experience; to be affected by; to be sensible of, or
sensitive to; as, to feel pleasure; to feel pain.
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Teach me to feel another's woe. --Pope.
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Whoso keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil
thing. --Eccl. viii.
5.
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
--Pope.
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Mankind have felt their strength and made it felt.
--Byron.
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4. To take internal cognizance of; to be conscious of; to
have an inward persuasion of.
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For then, and not till then, he felt himself.
--Shak.
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5. To perceive; to observe. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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{To feel the helm} (Naut.), to obey it.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Felt \Felt\,
imp. & p. p. or a. from {Feel}.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Felt \Felt\, n. [AS. felt; akin to D. vilt, G. filz, and
possibly to Gr. ? hair or wool wrought into felt, L. pilus
hair, pileus a felt cap or hat.]
1. A cloth or stuff made of matted fibers of wool, or wool
and fur, fulled or wrought into a compact substance by
rolling and pressure, with lees or size, without spinning
or weaving.
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It were a delicate stratagem to shoe
A troop of horse with felt. --Shak.
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2. A hat made of felt. --Thynne.
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3. A skin or hide; a fell; a pelt. [Obs.]
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To know whether sheep are sound or not, see that the
felt be loose. --Mortimer.
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{Felt grain}, the grain of timber which is transverse to the
annular rings or plates; the direction of the medullary
rays in oak and some other timber. --Knight.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Felt \Felt\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Felted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Felting}.]
1. To make into felt, or a feltike substance; to cause to
adhere and mat together. --Sir M. Hale.
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2. To cover with, or as with, felt; as, to felt the cylinder
of a steam engine.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
felt
n 1: a fabric made of compressed matted animal fibers
v 1: mat together and make felt-like; "felt the wool"
2: cover with felt; "felt a cap"
3: change texture so as to become matted and felt-like; "The
fabric felted up after several washes" [syn: {felt}, {felt
up}, {mat up}, {matt-up}, {matte up}, {matte}, {mat}]
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