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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
cloth, drapery, etoffe, fabric, goods, lace, material, napery, rag, silk, stuff, textile, textile fabric, texture, tissu, tissue, weave, web, weft, woof, wool
Dictionary Results for felt:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
felt
    n 1: a fabric made of compressed matted animal fibers
    v 1: mat together and make felt-like; "felt the wool"
    2: cover with felt; "felt a cap"
    3: change texture so as to become matted and felt-like; "The
       fabric felted up after several washes" [syn: felt, felt
       up, mat up, matt-up, matte up, matte, mat]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Felt \Felt\,
   imp. & p. p. or a. from Feel.
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4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Felt \Felt\, n. [AS. felt; akin to D. vilt, G. filz, and
   possibly to Gr. ? hair or wool wrought into felt, L. pilus
   hair, pileus a felt cap or hat.]
   1. 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.
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            It were a delicate stratagem to shoe
            A troop of horse with felt.           --Shak.
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   2. A hat made of felt. --Thynne.
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   3. A skin or hide; a fell; a pelt. [Obs.]
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            To know whether sheep are sound or not, see that the
            felt be loose.                        --Mortimer.
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   Felt grain, 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. --Knight.
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5. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Felt \Felt\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Felted; p. pr. & vb. n.
   Felting.]
   1. To make into felt, or a feltike substance; to cause to
      adhere and mat together. --Sir M. Hale.
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   2. To cover with, or as with, felt; as, to felt the cylinder
      of a steam engine.
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