To intercept and have a more kindly feel of its genial warmth.
Hazlitt.
2. A sensation communicated by touching; impression made upon one who
touches or handles; as, this leather has a greasy feel.
The difference between these two tumors will be distinguished by
the feel.
S. Sharp.
Feel"er (?), n. 1. One who, or that which, feels.
2. (Zoˆl.) 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.
Insects . . . perpetually feeling and searching before them with
their feelers or antennÊ.
Derham.
3. Anything, as a proposal, observation, etc., put forth or thrown out
in order to ascertain the views of others; something tentative.
Feel"ing, a. 1. Possessing great sensibility; easily affected or moved;
as, a feeling heart.
2. Expressive of great sensibility; attended by, or evincing,
sensibility; as, he made a feeling representation of his wrongs.
Feel"ing, n. 1. 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.
Why was the sight To such a tender ball as the eye confined, . . .
And not, as feeling, through all parts diffused?
Milton.
2. An act or state of perception by the sense above described; an act
of apprehending any object whatever; an act or state of apprehending
the state of the soul itself; consciousness.
The apprehension of the good Gives but the greater feeling to the
worse.
Shak.
3. The capacity of the soul for emotional states; a high degree of
susceptibility to emotions or states of the sensibility not dependent
on the body; as, a man of feeling; a man destitute of feeling.
4. Any state or condition of emotion; the exercise of the capacity for
emotion; any mental state whatever; as, a right or a wrong feeling in
the heart; our angry or kindly feelings; a feeling of pride or of
humility.
A fellow feeling makes one wondrous kind.
Garrick.
Tenderness for the feelings of others.
Macaulay.
5. That quality of a work of art which embodies the mental emotion of
the artist, and is calculated to affect similarly the spectator.
Fairholt.
Syn. -- Sensation; emotion; passion; sentiment; agitation; opinion. See
Emotion, Passion, Sentiment.
Feel"ing*ly, adv. In a feeling manner; pathetically; sympathetically.
Feere (?), n. [See Fere, n.] A consort, husband or wife; a companion; a
fere. [Obs.]
Feese (?), n. [Cf. OE. fesien to put to flight, AS. fsian, fsian, fsan,
fr. fs, prompt, willing.] The short run before a leap. [Obs.] Nares.
Feet (?), n. pl. See Foot.