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4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Feel \Feel\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Felt}; p. pr & vb n. {Feeling}.] [AS. f?lan; akin to OS gif?lian to perceive, D. voelen to feel OHG. fuolen G. f["u]hlen, Icel. f[=a]lma to grope, and prob. to AS folm paim 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. Who feel Those rods of scorpions and those whips of steel. --Creecn. 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 Come near . . . that I may feel thee, my son. --Gen. xxvii. 21. He hath this to feel my affection to your honor. --Shak. 3. To perceive by the mind; to have a sense of to experience; to be affected by to be sensible of or sensetive to as to feel pleasure; to feel pain. Teach me to feel another's woe. --Pope. Whoso keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil thing --Eccl. viii. 5. He best can paint them who shall feel them most --Pope. Mankind have felt their strength and made it felt. --Byron. 4. To take internal cognizance of to be conscious of to have an inward persuasion of For then, and not till then, he felt himself. --Shak. 5. To perceive; to observe. [Obs.] --Chaucer. {To feel the helm} (Naut.), to obey it From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Feeling \Feel"ing\, a. 1. Possessing great sensibility; easily affected or moved as a feeling heart. 2. Expressive of great sensibility; attended by or evincing, sensibility; as he made a feeling representation of his wrongs. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Feeling \Feel"ing\, n. 1. The sense by which the mind, through certain nerves of the body, perceives external objects, or certain states of the body itself that one of the five senses which resides in the general nerves of sensation distributed over the body, especially in its surface; the sense of touch; nervous sensibility to external objects. Why was the sight To such a tender ball as the eye confined, . . . And not as feeling, through all parts diffused? --Milton. 2. An act or state of perception by the sense above described; an act of apprehending any object whatever; an act or state of apprehending the state of the soul itself consciousness. The apprehension of the good Gives but the greater feeling to the worse. --Shak. 3. The capacity of the soul for emotional states; a high degree of susceptibility to emotions or states of the sensibility not dependent on the body; as a man of feeling; a man destitute of feeling. 4. Any state or condition of emotion; the exercise of the capacity for emotion; any mental state whatever; as a right or a wrong feeling in the heart; our angry or kindly feelings; a feeling of pride or of humility. A fellow feeling makes one wondrous kind --Garrick. Tenderness for the feelings of others --Macaulay. 5. That quality of a work of art which embodies the mental emotion of the artist, and is calculated to affect similarly the spectator. --Fairholt. Syn: Sensation; emotion; passion; sentiment; agitation; opinion. See {Emotion}, {Passion}, {Sentiment}. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: feeling n 1: the psychological feature of experiencing affective and emotional states; "he had a feeling of euphoria" 2: a vague idea in which some confidence is placed; "his impression of her was favorable"; "what are your feelings about the crisis?"; "it strengthened my belief in his sincerity" [syn: {impression}, {belief}, {notion}] 3: the general atmosphere of a place or situation; "the feel of the city excited him"; "a clergyman improved the tone of the meeting"; "it had the smell of treason" [syn: {spirit}, {tone}, {feel}, {flavor}, {look}, {smell}] 4: the perception of tactual or proprioceptive or gut sensations; "he relied on somesthesia to warn him of pressure changes"; "he had a queasy feeling" [syn: {somesthesia}, {somaesthesia}, {somatesthesia}, {somatic sensation}] 5: the sensation produced by pressure receptors in the skin; "she likes the touch of silk on her skin"; "the surface had a greasy feeling" [syn: {touch}, {touch sensation}, {tactual sensation}, {tactile sensation}] 6: manual-genital stimulation; "the girls hated it when he tried to sneak a feel" [syn: {feel}] 7: actively exploring with the hands; "he was feeling for the light switch"
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