'Felt' definitions:

Definition of 'felt'

(from WordNet)
noun
A fabric made of compressed matted animal fibers
verb
Mat together and make felt-like; "felt the wool"
verb
Cover with felt; "felt a cap"
verb
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]

Definition of 'Felt'

From: GCIDE
  • Feel \Feel\ (f[=e]l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Felt (f[e^]lt); p. pr. & vb. n. Feeling.] [AS. f[=e]lan; akin to OS. gif[=o]lian to perceive, D. voelen to feel, OHG. fuolen, G. f["u]hlen, Icel. f[=a]lma 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. [1913 Webster]
  • Who feel Those rods of scorpions and those whips of steel. --Creecn. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • Come near, . . . that I may feel thee, my son. --Gen. xxvii. 21. [1913 Webster]
  • He hath this to feel my affection to your honor. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • Teach me to feel another's woe. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
  • Whoso keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil thing. --Eccl. viii. 5. [1913 Webster]
  • He best can paint them who shall feel them most. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
  • Mankind have felt their strength and made it felt. --Byron. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. To take internal cognizance of; to be conscious of; to have an inward persuasion of. [1913 Webster]
  • For then, and not till then, he felt himself. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. To perceive; to observe. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
  • To feel the helm (Naut.), to obey it. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Felt'

From: GCIDE
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To cover with, or as with, felt; as, to felt the cylinder of a steam engine. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Felt'

From: GCIDE
  • Felt \Felt\, imp. & p. p. or a. from Feel. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Felt'

From: GCIDE
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • It were a delicate stratagem to shoe A troop of horse with felt. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. A hat made of felt. --Thynne. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. A skin or hide; a fell; a pelt. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
  • To know whether sheep are sound or not, see that the felt be loose. --Mortimer. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'felt'

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