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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.
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Who feel
Those rods of scorpions and those whips of steel.
--Creecn.
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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.
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Come near, . . . that I may feel thee, my son.
--Gen. xxvii.
21.
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He hath this to feel my affection to your honor.
--Shak.
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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.
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Teach me to feel another's woe. --Pope.
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Whoso keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil
thing. --Eccl. viii.
5.
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
--Pope.
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Mankind have felt their strength and made it felt.
--Byron.
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4. To take internal cognizance of; to be conscious of; to
have an inward persuasion of.
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For then, and not till then, he felt himself.
--Shak.
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5. To perceive; to observe. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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{To feel the helm} (Naut.), to obey it.
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Feeling \Feel"ing\, a.
1. Possessing great sensibility; easily affected or moved;
as, a feeling heart.
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2. Expressive of great sensibility; attended by, or evincing,
sensibility; as, he made a feeling representation of his
wrongs.
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Feeling \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.
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Why was the sight
To such a tender ball as the eye confined, . . .
And not, as feeling, through all parts diffused?
--Milton.
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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.
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The apprehension of the good
Gives but the greater feeling to the worse. --Shak.
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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.
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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.
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A fellow feeling makes one wondrous kind. --Garrick.
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Tenderness for the feelings of others. --Macaulay.
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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}.
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