To intercept and have a more kindly feel of its
genial warmth. --Hazlitt.
2. A sensation communicated by touching; impression made upon
one who touches or handles; as, this leather has a greasy
feel.
The difference between these two tumors will be
distinguished by the feel. --S. Sharp.
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.
2. To have the sensibilities moved or affected.
[She] feels with the dignity of a Roman matron.
--Burke.
And mine as man, who feel for all mankind. --Pope.
3. To be conscious of an inward impression, state of mind,
persuasion, physical condition, etc.; to perceive one's
self to be; -- followed by an adjective describing the
state, etc.; as, to feel assured, grieved, persuaded.
I then did feel full sick. --Shak.
4. To know with feeling; to be conscious; hence, to know
certainly or without misgiving.
Garlands . . . which I feel I am not worthy yet to
wear. --Shak.
5. To appear to the touch; to give a perception; to produce
an impression by the nerves of sensation; -- followed by
an adjective describing the kind of sensation.
Blind men say black feels rough, and white feels
smooth. --Dryden.
{To feel after}, to search for; to seek to find; to seek as a
person groping in the dark. ``If haply they might feel
after him, and find him.'' --Acts xvii. 27.
{To feel of}, to examine by touching.