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Feel   /fil/   Listen
verb
Feel  v. t.  (past & past part. felt; pres. part. feeling)  
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."
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." "He hath this to feel my affection to your honor."
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." "Whoso keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil thing." "He best can paint them who shall feel them most." "Mankind have felt their strength and made it felt."
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."
5.
To perceive; to observe. (Obs.)
To feel the helm (Naut.), to obey it.


Feel  v. i.  (past & past part. felt; pres. part. feeling)  
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". "And mine as man, who feel for all mankind."
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."
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."
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."
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."
To feel of, to examine by touching.


noun
Feel  n.  
1.
Feeling; perception. (R.) "To intercept and have a more kindly feel of its genial warmth."
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."





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"Feel" Quotes from Famous Books



... a fortunate mother," said the aged pastor, after he had listened to Gertrude's expressions of gratitude. "Those are two uncommon children that the good God has confided to your care, and I feel the greatest interest in them. The lad has a clear head, and a winning grace that draws everyone to him. Veronica is serious and conscientious; she has a calm steady nature and can be depended upon for fidelity to duty, such as it is rare ...
— Veronica And Other Friends - Two Stories For Children • Johanna (Heusser) Spyri
... got the impression that a good many of the men down in New York and Boston, and elsewhere, through the advantages which the tariff laws, and other laws, are giving them, are getting more than they earn—a lot more. And we feel that laws must be passed which will ...
— Adventures In Friendship • David Grayson
... the splendour of her success in the ranks of fashion was not obtained at the expense of her virtue. The time approaches in which she is about to yield to the manners of her age, and to the long-combatted wants of her heart. The love which she inspired in others, she is, in turn, about to feel herself, and it is to engage her, at the age of twenty-eight or twenty-nine, in a fatal connection, which will make her unmindful of all her conjugal duties, and turn her most brilliant qualities against herself, against her family, and ...
— Political Women (Vol. 1 of 2) • Sutherland Menzies
... and princesses and kings and queens. Moreover, witnesses were called who declared under oath that the previously mentioned dogs and monkeys behaved behind the scenes more quietly and respectably than many Italian singers. This fact I feel that I am not called on to dispute. . . . As might be supposed the ...
— Chapters of Opera • Henry Edward Krehbiel
... event, would it not be possible for you to become a citizen of our State? Everyone deplores your determination to leave us. At the same time, your friends feel that you are abandoning a position that might become an object of ...
— The Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman, Complete • William T. Sherman


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