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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

FELT, pret. of feel.
FELT, n. [L. pellis, Eng. fell, a skin from plucking or stripping, L. vello, vellus, Eng. wool.]
1. A cloth or stuff made of wool, or wool and hair, fulled or wrought into a compact substance by rolling and pressure with lees or size.
2. A hat made of wool.
3. Skin.
To know whether sheep are sound or not, see that the felt be loose.
FELT, v.t. To make cloth or stuff of wool, or wool and hair, by fulling.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a fabric made of compressed matted animal fibers 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, felt up, mat up, matt-up, matte up, matte, mat]

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English; akin to Old High German filz felt, Latin pellere to drive, beat Date: before 12th century 1. a. a cloth made of wool and fur often mixed with natural or synthetic fibers through the action of heat, moisture, chemicals, and pressure b. a firm woven cloth of wool or cotton heavily napped and shrunk 2. an article made of felt 3. a material resembling felt: as a. a heavy paper of organic or asbestos fibers impregnated with asphalt and used in building construction b. semirigid pressed fiber insulation used in building • feltlike adjective II. transitive verb Date: 14th century 1. to make out of or cover with felt 2. to cause to adhere and mat together 3. to make into felt or a similar substance III. past and past participle of feel

Oxford Reference Dictionary

1. n. & v. --n. 1 a kind of cloth made by rolling and pressing wool etc., or by weaving and shrinking it. 2 a similar material made from other fibres. --v. 1 tr. make into felt; mat together. 2 tr. cover with felt. 3 intr. become matted. Phrases and idioms: felt-tipped (or felt-tip) pen a pen with a writing-point made of felt or fibre. Derivatives: felty adj. Etymology: OE f. WG 2. past and past part. of FEEL.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Feel Feel, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Felt; p. pr. & vb. n. Feeling.] [AS. f?lan; akin to OS. gif?lian to perceive, D. voelen to feel, OHG. fuolen, G. f["u]hlen, Icel. f[=a]lma to grope, and prob. to AS. folm paim 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 sensetive 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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Felt Felt, imp. & p. p. or a. from Feel.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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. It were a delicate stratagem to shoe A troop of horse with felt. --Shak. 2. A hat made of felt. --Thynne. 3. A skin or hide; a fell; a pelt. [Obs.] To know whether sheep are sound or not, see that the felt be loose. --Mortimer.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Felt grain 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. 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. 2. To cover with, or as with, felt; as, to felt the cylinder of a steam emgine.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. Felt is the past tense and past participle of feel. 2. Felt is a thick cloth made from wool or other fibres packed tightly together.

Moby Thesaurus

cloth, drapery, etoffe, fabric, goods, lace, material, napery, rag, silk, stuff, textile, textile fabric, texture, tissu, tissue, weave, web, weft, woof, wool