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<p><b>2.</b> <def>To have the sensibilities moved or affected</def>.

<blockquote> <b>feels</b> with the dignity of a Roman matron. <i>Burke.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>And mine as man, who <b>feel</b> for all mankind. <i>Pope.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>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>as, to <ex>feel</ex> assured, grieved, persuaded</as>.</def>

<blockquote>I then did <b>feel</b> full sick. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>To know with feeling; to be conscious; hence, to know certainly or without misgiving.</def>

<blockquote>Garlands . . . which I <b>feel</b> I am not worthy yet to wear. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>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.</def>

<blockquote>Blind men say black <b>feels</b> rough, and white <b>feels</b> smooth. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>To feel after</col>, <cd>to search for; to seek to find; to seek as a person groping in the dark. "If haply they might <i>feel after<i> him, and find him."</cd></cs>

<i>Acts xvii. 27.</i>

<cs><col>- To feel of</col>, <cd>to examine by touching.</cd></cs>

<h1>Feel</h1> <Xpage=550>

<hw>Feel</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Feeling; perception.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<blockquote>To intercept and have a more kindly <b>feel</b> of its genial warmth. <i>Hazlitt.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A sensation communicated by touching; impression made upon one who touches or handles; <as>as, this leather has a greasy <ex>feel</ex></as>.</def>

<blockquote>The difference between these two tumors will be distinguished by the <b>feel</b>. <i>S. Sharp.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Feeler</h1> <Xpage=550>

<hw>Feel"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>One who, or that which, feels.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>One of the sense organs or certain animals (as insects), which are used in testing objects by touch and in searching for food; an antenna; a palp.</def>

<blockquote>Insects . . . perpetually feeling and searching before them with their <b>feelers</b> or antenn\'91. <i>Derham.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Anything, as a proposal, observation, etc., put forth or thrown out in order to ascertain the views of others; something tentative.</def>

<h1>Feeling</h1> <Xpage=550>

<hw>Feel"ing</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Possessing great sensibility; easily affected or moved; <as>as, a <ex>feeling</ex> heart</as>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Expressive of great sensibility; attended by, or evincing, sensibility; <as>as, he made a <ex>feeling</ex> representation of his wrongs</as>.</def>

<h1>Feeling</h1> <Xpage=550>

<hw>Feel"ing</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The sense by which the mind, through certain nerves of the body, perceives external objects, or certain states of the body itself; that one of the five senses which resides in the general nerves of sensation distributed over the body, especially in its surface; the sense of touch; nervous sensibility to external objects.</def>

<blockquote>Why was the sight To such a tender ball as the eye confined, . . . And not, as <b>feeling</b>, through all parts diffused? <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>