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Feel (fēl), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Felt (fĕlt); p. pr. & vb. n. Feeling.] [AS. fēlan; akin to OS. gifōlian to perceive, D. voelen to feel, OHG. fuolen, G. fühlen, Icel. fālma 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. 5.
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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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Felt (?), imp. & p. p. or a. from Feel.
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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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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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