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Feel
FEEL, v.t. pret. and pp. felt. [L. palpo. the primary sense is to touch, to pat, to strike gently, or to press, as is evident from the L. palpito, and other derivatives of palp. If so, the word seems to be allied to L. pello.]
1. To perceive by the touch; to have sensation excited by contact of a thing with the body or limbs.
Suffer me that I may feel the pillars. Judg 16.
Come near, I pray thee, that I may feel thee, my son.
Gen 27.
2. To have the sense of; to suffer or enjoy; as, to feel pain; to feel pleasure.
3. To experience; to suffer.
Whoso keepeth the commandments shall feel no evil thing. Eccl 8.
4. To be affected by; to perceive mentally; as, to feel grief or woe.
Would I had never trod this English earth, or felt the flatteies that grow upon it.
5. To know; to be acquainted with; to have a real and just view of.
For then, and not till then, he felt himself.
6. To touch; to handle; with or without of.
Feel this piece of silk, or feel of it.
To feel, or to feel out, is to try; to sound; to search for; to explore; as, to feel or feel out one's opinions or designs.
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 18.
FEEL, v.i.
1. To have perception by the touch, or by the contact of any substance with the body.
2. To have the sensibility or the passions moved or excited. The good man feels for the woes of others.
3. To give perception; to excite sensation.
Blind men say black feels rough, and white feels smooth.
So, we say, a thing feels soft or hard, or it feels hot or cold.
4. To have perception mentally; as, to feel hurt; to feel grieved; to feel unwilling.
FEEL, n. The sense of feeling, or the perception caused by the touch. The difference of tumors may be ascertained by the feel. Argillaceous stones may sometimes be known by the feel. [In America, feeling is more generally used; but the use of feel is not uncommon.]
feel appears in definitions for these words:
Action Acute Acuteness Affected Affecting Ake Alive Angry Antanaclasis Antennae Antipathy Apathetic Apathy Aphis Apprehensive Associable Bitter Blend Borax Burn Burnable Camphor Clear Cockroach Cold Cold-blooded Cold-hearted Cold-heartedness Coldly Come Commiserate Commiserating Concern Condole Conscience Consent Controll Cutting Deaden Decay Dedolent Deeply Delicacy Delicate Delicately Dependence Deplore Disnatured Dispassionate Disrelish Distinguish Domite Dryness Elegance Elephant-beetle Elephantiasis Emolument Emotion Enjoy Enjoying Entreaat Envious Envy Envying Eupahty Exquisitely Famish Fear Fearful Feel Feeler Feeling Feelingly Fellow-feeling Felt Flat Flea Flow Forebode Franc Free Fumble Genial Glow Grabble Grabbling Grate Gratitude Greasy Grief Grieve Gripe Grope Groper Groping Grubble Grudge Handle Handling Hardheartedness Hateful Health Hear Heart-expanding Heat Heft Hell High Horn Humane Humanely Humanity Humanize Hunger Hungering Hungry Hurt Immovable Impalpable Impassionate Impassioned Impassivity Impressive Indifference Indifferent Indignant Ingrate Injure Insensibility Insensible Insusceptibility Itch Joy Lament Language Lasciviousness Leaden-hearted Lote Lothe Lothing Louse Management Mealy Mirth Modesty Mollusca Molybden Mood Mournful Move Nacrite Near Neuter Neutrality Numbness Obligate Oil Pain Palp Palpable Palpation Passibility Passible Passion Passionately Passy-measure Penetrate Perceiver Pitiful Pity Poetry Poke-weed Poking Polypus Pulse Quaffer Realize Realizing Regard Regret Rejoicing Relent Remord Remorsed Remorseful Repent Repentance Repenting Repine Repining Reprobation Resenter Resenting Resentive Reverence Revolt Revolting Ride Rub Sadly Say Sea-hare Search Secure See Sense Senseless Sensibility Sensible Sensibleness Sensibly Sensitive Sentiment Sentimental Sentimentalist Sentimentality Sharpness Shock Shoot Shrimp Silkiness Slaty Smart Soft Soften Softness Solicitude Sorrowing Sour Star-fish Startle Steatite Stoically Strength Suffer Sympathetic Sympathetically Sympathize Sympathy Tact Take Talcky Tangibility Taste Tell Tender Tentacle Thankless Thanks Thirsting Thirsty Thrill Thrilling Tickle Tingle Tinkal Torment Torpid Torpor Touch Touching Touchingly Trace Turn Unaking Unborn Unbosom Unconcerned Unctuous Uneasy Ungrateful Ungratefulness Unheard Unnatural Unnaturalize Unnaturalized Unnaturally Veneration Visceral Wacky Want Wasp Wondering Wretchedness Yearn
Action Acute Acuteness Affected Affecting Ake Alive Angry Antanaclasis Antennae Antipathy Apathetic Apathy Aphis Apprehensive Associable Bitter Blend Borax Burn Burnable Camphor Clear Cockroach Cold Cold-blooded Cold-hearted Cold-heartedness Coldly Come Commiserate Commiserating Concern Condole Conscience Consent Controll Cutting Deaden Decay Dedolent Deeply Delicacy Delicate Delicately Dependence Deplore Disnatured Dispassionate Disrelish Distinguish Domite Dryness Elegance Elephant-beetle Elephantiasis Emolument Emotion Enjoy Enjoying Entreaat Envious Envy Envying Eupahty Exquisitely Famish Fear Fearful Feel Feeler Feeling Feelingly Fellow-feeling Felt Flat Flea Flow Forebode Franc Free Fumble Genial Glow Grabble Grabbling Grate Gratitude Greasy Grief Grieve Gripe Grope Groper Groping Grubble Grudge Handle Handling Hardheartedness Hateful Health Hear Heart-expanding Heat Heft Hell High Horn Humane Humanely Humanity Humanize Hunger Hungering Hungry Hurt Immovable Impalpable Impassionate Impassioned Impassivity Impressive Indifference Indifferent Indignant Ingrate Injure Insensibility Insensible Insusceptibility Itch Joy Lament Language Lasciviousness Leaden-hearted Lote Lothe Lothing Louse Management Mealy Mirth Modesty Mollusca Molybden Mood Mournful Move Nacrite Near Neuter Neutrality Numbness Obligate Oil Pain Palp Palpable Palpation Passibility Passible Passion Passionately Passy-measure Penetrate Perceiver Pitiful Pity Poetry Poke-weed Poking Polypus Pulse Quaffer Realize Realizing Regard Regret Rejoicing Relent Remord Remorsed Remorseful Repent Repentance Repenting Repine Repining Reprobation Resenter Resenting Resentive Reverence Revolt Revolting Ride Rub Sadly Say Sea-hare Search Secure See Sense Senseless Sensibility Sensible Sensibleness Sensibly Sensitive Sentiment Sentimental Sentimentalist Sentimentality Sharpness Shock Shoot Shrimp Silkiness Slaty Smart Soft Soften Softness Solicitude Sorrowing Sour Star-fish Startle Steatite Stoically Strength Suffer Sympathetic Sympathetically Sympathize Sympathy Tact Take Talcky Tangibility Taste Tell Tender Tentacle Thankless Thanks Thirsting Thirsty Thrill Thrilling Tickle Tingle Tinkal Torment Torpid Torpor Touch Touching Touchingly Trace Turn Unaking Unborn Unbosom Unconcerned Unctuous Uneasy Ungrateful Ungratefulness Unheard Unnatural Unnaturalize Unnaturalized Unnaturally Veneration Visceral Wacky Want Wasp Wondering Wretchedness Yearn
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