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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Felt \Felt\, imp. & p. p. or a. from Feel.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)