felt /ˈfɛlt/
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 Feel v. t. [imp. & p. p. Felt p. pr. & vb. n. Feeling.]
 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 sensitive 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.]
 To feel the helm Naut., to obey it.


 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.
 2. To cover with, or as with, felt; as, to felt the cylinder of a steam engine.

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 Felt imp. & p. p. ∨ a. from Feel.


 Felt n.
 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.
 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.
 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.


 feel
      n 1: an intuitive awareness; "he has a feel for animals" or "it's
           easy when you get the feel of it";
      2: the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the
         effect that it has on people; "the feel of the city
         excited him"; "a clergyman improved the tone of the
         meeting"; "it had the smell of treason" [syn: spirit, tone,
          feeling, flavor, flavour, look, smell]
      3: a property perceived by touch [syn: tactile property]
      4: manual-genital stimulation for sexual pleasure; "the girls
         hated it when he tried to sneak a feel"
      v 1: undergo an emotional sensation; "She felt resentful"; "He
           felt regret" [syn: experience]
      2: come to believe on the basis of emotion, intuitions, or
         indefinite grounds; "I feel that he doesn't like me"; "I
         find him to be obnoxious"; "I found the movie rather
         entertaining" [syn: find]
      3: perceive by a physical sensation, e.g., coming from the skin
         or muscles; "He felt the wind"; "She felt an object
         brushing her arm"; "He felt his flesh crawl"; "She felt
         the heat when she got out of the car" [syn: sense]
      4: seem with respect to a given sensation given; "My cold is
         gone--I feel fine today"; "She felt tired after the long
         hike"
      5: have a feeling or perception about oneself in reaction to
         someone's behavior or attitude; "She felt small and
         insignificant"; "You make me feel naked"; "I made the
         students feel different about themselves"
      6: undergo passive experience of:"We felt the effects of
         inflation"; "her fingers felt their way through the string
         quartet"; "she felt his contempt of her"
      7: be felt or perceived in a certain way; "The ground feels
         shaky"; "The sheets feel soft"
      8: grope or feel in search of something; "He felt for his
         wallet"
      9: examine by touch; "Feel this soft cloth!"; "The customer
         fingered the sweater" [syn: finger]
      10: examine (a body part) by palpation; "The nurse palpated the
          patient's stomach"; "The runner felt her pulse" [syn: palpate]
      11: find by testing or cautious exploration; "He felt his way
          around the dark room"
      12: produce a certain impression; "It feels nice to be home
          again"
      13: pass one's hands over the sexual organs of; "He felt the
          girl in the movie theater"
      [also: felt]


 felt
      n : a fabric made of compressed matted animal fibers
      v 1: mat together and make felt-like; "felt the wool"
      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, matt-up, matte up, matte, mat]


 felt
      See feel