Felt

9 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Feel \Feel\ (f[=e]l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Felt} (f[e^]lt); p.
     pr. & vb. n. {Feeling}.] [AS. f[=e]lan; akin to OS.
     gif[=o]lian to perceive, D. voelen to feel, OHG. fuolen, G.
     f["u]hlen, Icel. f[=a]lma to grope, and prob. to AS. folm
     palm 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.
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              Who feel
              Those rods of scorpions and those whips of steel.
                                                    --Creecn.
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     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.
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              Come near, . . . that I may feel thee, my son.
                                                    --Gen. xxvii.
                                                    21.
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              He hath this to feel my affection to your honor.
                                                    --Shak.
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     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.
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              Teach me to feel another's woe.       --Pope.
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              Whoso keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil
              thing.                                --Eccl. viii.
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              He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
                                                    --Pope.
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              Mankind have felt their strength and made it felt.
                                                    --Byron.
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     4. To take internal cognizance of; to be conscious of; to
        have an inward persuasion of.
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              For then, and not till then, he felt himself.
                                                    --Shak.
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     5. To perceive; to observe. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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     {To feel the helm} (Naut.), to obey it.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Felt \Felt\,
     imp. & p. p. or a. from {Feel}.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
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              It were a delicate stratagem to shoe
              A troop of horse with felt.           --Shak.
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     2. A hat made of felt. --Thynne.
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     3. A skin or hide; a fell; a pelt. [Obs.]
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              To know whether sheep are sound or not, see that the
              felt be loose.                        --Mortimer.
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     {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.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
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     2. To cover with, or as with, felt; as, to felt the cylinder
        of a steam engine.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  felt
       See {feel}

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  21 Moby Thesaurus words for "felt":
     cloth, drapery, etoffe, fabric, goods, lace, material, napery, rag,
     silk, stuff, textile, textile fabric, texture, tissu, tissue,
     weave, web, weft, woof, wool
  
  

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:

  Felt, ID
    Zip code(s): 83424
  Felt, OK
    Zip code(s): 73937