Found 2 items, similar to Felt.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: felt 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] 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” [also: felt] felt 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 n : a fabric made of compressed matted animal fibers felt See feel
English → English (gcide) Definition: Felt Felt \Felt\, imp. & p. p. or a. from Feel. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] It were a delicate stratagem to shoe A troop of horse with felt. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. A hat made of felt. --Thynne. [1913 Webster] 3. A skin or hide; a fell; a pelt. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] To know whether sheep are sound or not, see that the felt be loose. --Mortimer. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 2. To cover with, or as with, felt; as, to felt the cylinder of a steam engine. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] Who feel Those rods of scorpions and those whips of steel. --Creecn. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] Come near, . . . that I may feel thee, my son. --Gen. xxvii. 21. [1913 Webster] He hath this to feel my affection to your honor. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] Teach me to feel another's woe. --Pope. [1913 Webster] Whoso keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil thing. --Eccl. viii. 5. [1913 Webster] He best can paint them who shall feel them most. --Pope. [1913 Webster] Mankind have felt their strength and made it felt. --Byron. [1913 Webster] 4. To take internal cognizance of; to be conscious of; to have an inward persuasion of. [1913 Webster] For then, and not till then, he felt himself. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 5. To perceive; to observe. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] To feel the helm (Naut.), to obey it. [1913 Webster]