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<h1>Felstone</h1> <Xpage=551>

<hw>Fel"stone`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[From G. <ets>feldstein</ets>, in analogy with E. <ets>fel</ets>spar.]</ety> <fld>(Min.)</fld> <def>See <er>Felsite</er>.</def>

<h1>Felt</h1> <Xpage=551>

<hw>Felt</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <def><tt>imp. & p. p. &or; a.</tt> from <er>Feel</er>.</def>

<h1>Felt</h1> <Xpage=551>

<hw>Felt</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[AS. <ets>felt</ets>; akin to D. <ets>vilt</ets>, G. <ets>filz</ets>, and possibly to Gr. <?/ hair or wool wrought into felt, L. <ets>pilus</ets> hair, <ets>pileus</ets> a felt cap or hat.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>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.</def>

<blockquote>It were a delicate stratagem to shoe A troop of horse with felt. <i>Shak</i></blockquote>.

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A hat made of felt.</def>

<i>Thynne.</i>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>A skin or hide; a fell; a pelt.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>To know whether sheep are sound or not, see that the <b>felt</b> be loose. <i>Mortimer.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Felt grain</h1> <Xpage=551>

<hw>Felt grain</hw><def>, 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.</def>

<i>Knight.</i>

<h1>Felt</h1> <Xpage=551>

<hw>Felt</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Felted</er>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Felting</er>.]</wordforms> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To make into felt, or a feltike substance; to cause to adhere and mat together.</def>

<i>Sir M. Hale.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To cover with, or as with, felt; <as>as, to <ex>felt</ex> the cylinder of a steam emgine</as>.</def>

<h1>Felter</h1> <Xpage=551>

<hw>Felt"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To clot or mat together like felt.</def>

<blockquote>His <b>feltered</b> locks that on his bosom fell. <i>Fairfax.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Felting</h1> <Xpage=551>

<hw>Felt"ing</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The material of which felt is made; also, felted cloth; also, the process by which it is made.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The act of splitting timber by the felt grain.</def>

<h1>Feltry</h1> <Xpage=551>

<hw>Fel"try</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OF. <ets>feltre</ets>.]</ety> <def>See <er>Felt</er>, <tt>n.</tt></def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Felucca</h1> <Xpage=551>

<hw>Fe*luc"ca</hw> <tt>(<?/)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[It. <ets>feluca</ets> (cf. Sp. <ets>faluca</ets>, Pg. <ets>falua</ets>), fr. Ar. <ets>fulk</ets> ship, or <ets>harr\'beqah</ets> a sort of ship.]</ety> <fld>(Naut.)</fld> <def>A small, swift-sailing vessel, propelled by oars and lateen sails, -- once common in the Mediterranean</def>. <note>Sometimes it is constructed so that the helm may be used at either end.</note>