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feeler |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Feeler \Feel"er\, n. 1. One who or that which feels. 2. (Zo["o]l.) One of the sense organs or certain animals (as insects), which are used in testing objects by touch and in searching for food; an antenna; a palp. Insects . . . perpetually feeling and searching before them with their feelers or antenn[ae]. --Derham. 3. Anything as a proposal, observation, etc., put forth or thrown out in order to ascertain the views of others something tentative. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: feeler n 1: one of a pair of mobile appendages on the head of e.g. insects and crustaceans; typically sensitive to touch and taste [syn: {antenna}] 2: a tentative suggestion designed to elicit the reactions of others "she rejected his advances" [syn: {overture}, {advance}, {approach}] 3: sensitivity similar to that of a receptor organ; "he had a special antenna for public relations" [syn: {antenna}] 4: slender tactile process on the jaws of a fish [syn: {barbel}]
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