Feel (?), n.
1. Feeling; perception. [R.]
To intercept
and have a more kindly feel of its
genial warmth.
Hazlitt. 2. A sensation communicated by touching; impression made upon one
who touches or handles; as, this leather has a
greasy feel.
The difference between these two tumors will be distinguished by the feel.
S. Sharp.
Feel (?), v. i. 1. To
have perception by the touch,
or by contact of anything with the nerves of sensation, especially
those upon the surface of the body.
2. To have the
sensibilities moved or affected.
[She] feels with the dignity of a Roman matron
. Burke. And
mine as man,
who feel for all mankind.
Pope. 3. To be conscious of an inward impression, state of mind, persuasion, physical condition, etc.; to perceive one's self to be; -- followed by an adjective describing the state, etc.; as, to feel assured, grieved, persuaded.
I then did feel full sick.
Shak.
4. To know with feeling; to be conscious; hence, to know certainly or without misgiving.
Garlands . . .
which I feel
I am
not worthy yet to wear.
Shak.
5. To appear to the
touch; to give a perception; to produce an impression by the nerves of sensation; -- followed by an adjective describing the kind of sensation.
Blind men say
black feels rough, and white feels smooth.
Dryden. To feel after, to search for; to seek to find; to seek
as a person
groping in the dark. "If haply they might feel after him, and find him."
Acts xvii. 27.
-- To feel of, to examine by
touching.
Feel (fēl),
v. t. [imp. & p. p. Felt (f&ebreve;lt); 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.
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 sensitive 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.
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