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Felt

verb

1.

Mat together and make felt-like.

2.

Cover with felt.

3.

Change texture so as to become matted and felt-like. Synonyms: felt up, mat, mat up, matt-up, matte, matte up.

noun

1.

A fabric made of compressed matted animal fibers.

Feel

verb

(past & past part. felt; pres. part. feeling)

1.

Undergo an emotional sensation or be in a particular state of mind. Synonym: experience. "He felt regret"

2.

Come to believe on the basis of emotion, intuitions, or indefinite grounds. Synonym: find. "I find him to be obnoxious" , "I found the movie rather entertaining"

3.

Perceive by a physical sensation, e.g., coming from the skin or muscles. Synonym: sense. "She felt an object brushing her arm" , "He felt his flesh crawl" , "She felt the heat when she got out of the car"

4.

Be conscious of a physical, mental, or emotional state. "She felt tired after the long hike" , "She felt sad after her loss"

5.

Have a feeling or perception about oneself in reaction to someone's behavior or attitude. "You make me feel naked" , "I made the students feel different about themselves"

6.

Undergo passive experience of:. "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 sheets feel soft"

8.

Grope or feel in search of something.

9.

Examine by touch. Synonym: finger. "The customer fingered the sweater"

10.

Examine (a body part) by palpation. Synonym: palpate. "The runner felt her pulse"

11.

Find by testing or cautious exploration.

12.

Produce a certain impression.

13.

Pass one's hands over the sexual organs of.

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... and conformed to our alphabetic signs, and well understood, the pupil may become acquainted with book knowledge as well as we. They go by sight and not by sound. A different method is adopted with the blind. Letters with them are so arranged that they can feel them. The signs thus felt correspond with the sounds they hear. Here they must stop. They cannot see to describe. Those who are so unfortunate as to be blind and deaf, can have but a faint knowledge of language, or the ...

— Lectures on Language - As Particularly Connected with English Grammar. • William S. Balch

... for a little walk before tea?" said Miss Somers to the other ladies. "I have a pretty guinea-hen to show you." Barbara now felt hopeful, and when even among the pheasants and peacocks the guinea-hen was much admired, she was sure that Miss Somers must indeed be proud ...

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... Venice. There had been a time in America when, if I could have truthfully declared that I had ever been in a gondola, I should have felt as if I held a diploma of nobility in the Grand Order of Cosmopolites. Having been conveyed in one to my hotel on the Grand Canal, I felt that I at last held it! Now I had really mastered the three great cities of Italy, ...

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