3. That which furnishes or affords food, especially for animals;
pasture land.
Feeding bottle. See under Bottle.
Fee`-faw`-fum" (?), n. A nonsensical exclamation attributed to giants
and ogres; hence, any expression calculated to impose upon the timid
and ignorant. "Impudent fee-faw-fums." J. H. Newman.
Fee"jee (?), a. & n. (Ethnol.) See Fijian.
Feel (fl), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Felt (flt); p. pr. & vb. n. Feeling.]
[AS. flan; akin to OS. giflian to perceive, D. voelen to feel, OHG.
fuolen, G. f¸hlen, Icel. flma 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.
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 sensitive 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.