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6 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]: Felt \Felt\, imp. & p. p. or a. from {Feel}. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. It were a delicate stratagem to shoe A troop of horse with felt. --Shak. 2. A hat made of felt. --Thynne. 3. A skin or hide; a fell; a pelt. [Obs.] To know whether sheep are sound or not see that the felt be loose. --Mortimer. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Felt grain \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. 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. 2. To cover with or as with felt; as to felt the cylinder of a steam emgine. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: felt adj : detected by instinct or inference rather than by recognized perceptual cues; "the felt presence of an intruder"; "a sensed presence in the room raised goosebumps on her arms"; "a perceived threat" [syn: {sensed}, {perceived}] n : a fabric made of compressed matted animal fibers v 1: mat together and make felt-like, as of material 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 up}, {mat up}, {mat}] From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: Felt, ID Zip code(s): 83424 Felt, OK Zip code(s): 73937
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