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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) 1.7 (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}]


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