feel 
fee! 2 t, adv. [< ME. feele, fele, adv. ; < feeft, a.] 
Much. 
lie hath eese at weelde 
That thankfth Bod/Ml) & seelde. 
ISiiliret Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 43. 
For they bring in the substance of the Beere, 
That they drinken/eete too good chepe, not dere. 
UaUuyfn Vtyaget, 1. 192. 
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feeze 
rienced; vivid. 
In whose hearts God hath written his law with his holy 
Spirit, and given them a feeling faith of the mercy that is 
in Christ Jesu our Lord. Tyndale, Ans. to Sir T. More, etc. 
[(Parker Soc., 1850), p. 13. 
I had & feeling sense 
sensations ; those which correspond indirectly are termed feeling look or gesture ; he spoke with feeling 
emotions ; and when the remoteness from direct corns- eloquence. 
spondence is great, the feeling is in some cases termed a Frame some feeling line, 
sentiment. t. Meraer, .Mind, IX. &Sf>. I'h&t may discover such integrity. 
It may be needful to guard against a further miscon- Shak., T. G. of V., iii. 2. 
ceptiou, and to state explicitly that the term feeling, the -RVpitincr ^hjiitv dppnlv ffilt or realized- 
most general term in psychology, includes emotion, not o. Exciting se 
less than sensation and perception. affecting. [Kare.J 
G. H. Lewes, Probs. of Life and Mind, II. iv. 17. Thu u t a more f ee n n g grief to us. 
feelable (fe'la-bl), . [< feefl + -able.] That 4 In a re8 tricted sense, pleasure or pain; any Swift, Tale of a Tub, i. 
may or can be felt ; palpable. [Rare.] state or element of consciousness having a 4. Sensibly felt or realized ; emotionally expe- 
pleasurable or a painful aspect. 
As to the meaning of the term, it is plain that further 
definition is requisite for a word that may mean (a) a touch, 
as feeling of roughness ; (6) an organic sensation, as feel- 
ing of hunger ; (c) an emotion, as feeling of anger ; (a) 
feeling proper, as pleasure or pain. But, even taking 
feeling in the last, its strict sense, it has been maintained 
that all the more complex forms of consciousness are re- 
solvable into, or at least have been developed trom,feel- 
ings of pleasure and pain. J. Ward, Encyc. Brit., XX. 40. feelingly (fe'hng-ll), adv. 1. With feeling or 
The feeling, the pleasurable or painful tone of the sensa- expression of sensibility ; tenderly : as, to speak 
tion, is alwa'ys recognized as purely and simply a way in feelingly. 
which the mind Uibctod. PsvcholoCT 504 When I see cause, I can both do and suffer, 
G. T. Ladd, Physiol. Ps ft ^ feeUn ^ ly< as true gen tleman. 
Hence 5. An emotion in so far as it is im- Fletcher, Wildgoose Chase, iv. 3. 
mediately present to consciousness, not having Tney beBt can 8erve true gladness 
regard to the physiological disturbance which who meet ma& feelingly the calls of sadness, 
is one of its elements; the capacity for emo- Wordsworth, Sonnets, iii. 35. 
tion ; mental state, disposition, or faculty as 2. So as to be sensibly felt. [Rare.] 
regards emotion : as, a feeling of sympathy ; a These are counsellors 
feeling of pride in the history of one's country. That feelingly persuade me what I am. 
See emotion, 2. Shak., As you Like it, ii. 1. 
Great persons hadneed toborrow othermen's opinions feelth(felth), n. [(.feel 1 + -th.~\ Feeling. Also 
to think themselves happy, for if they judge by their own fem _ [proV- Eng- -j 
'-%!. [Variously written/eer, fere, fear, 
may or c 
In chafing himself, to heap lie upon lie, he nttereth his 
feelable blindness. Tyndale, Ans. to Sir T. More, etc. 
[(Parker Soc., 1850), p. 210. 
feeldt n. An obsolete spelling of field. 
feelefoldt, [ME. uteofelefold; <feeP + -fold.'] 
Manifold. 
The feelefold colours and deceytes of thilke mervayles 
monstre Fortune. Chaucer, Boethius, ii. prose 1. 
And he tamed hym as tyte and thanne toke I hede, 
It was fouler by felefolde than it nrste semed. 
Piers Plowman. (B), xiii. 320. 
feeler (fe'ler), . 1. One who or that which 
feels. 
Had I this cheek, 
To bathe my lips upon ; this hand, whose touch, 
Whose every touch, would force the feeler's soul 
To the oath of loyalty. Shak., Cymbeline, i. 7. 
He [Thoreau] was not a strong thinker, but a sensitive 
feeler. Lowell, Study Windows, p. 207. 
Specifically 2. Any special organ of touch of 
an animal ; a tactile part, (a) A common name ap- 
plied to the antennae of insects and crustaceans, and to the 
palpi of insects and spiders. These organs probably serve 
as organs of touch as well as for other purposes. See an- 
tenna and palpus, (b) A tentacle of any kind, (c) A cir- 
rus of a cirriped, as one of the legs of a barnacle, (d) A. 
whisker or rictal vibrissa. 
The long whiskers or feelers of many animals, as the cat. 
Mivart, Elem. Anat., p. 248. 
3. The representation on an artificial fly of an 
antenna of an insect. Feelers are folded back, 
extending above and sometimes beyond the 
wings. 
The feelers, which, by a great stretch of imagination, 
are supposed to represent the antennae of a natural fly, 
are the two long fibres of macaw tail feather tied in on 
each side of the head, and extending back over the wings. 
Sportsman's Gazetteer, p. 600. 
4. Any indirect act, device, stratagem, or plan 
resorted to for the purpose of finding out some- 
thing which cannot be ascertained directly, 
especially the designs, opinions, or sentiments 
of others. 
After putting forth his right leg now and then as a. feeler, 
the victim who dropped the money ventures to make one 
or two distinct dives after it. Dickens, Sketches, i. 
5. Naut., the first onset of a storm, followed by 
a short calm. Long feeler, the antenna proper of a 
crustacean. Short feeler. Same as antennula, 3. 
feeling (fe'ling), . [Verbal n. of feel 1 , .] 1. 
The act of sensing or perceiving by sensation. 
Specifically (a) The act of perceiving by touch, or the 
sense of touch, (fr) More comprehensively, all that part 
of the sensory function (as the sensing of cold, hunger, 
etc.) which is not included in the special senses of sight, 
hearing, smell, and taste. See toueh, n. 
Why was the sight 
To such a tender ball as the eye confined, . . . 
And not, as feeling, through all parts diffused ? 
Milton, S. A., 1. 96. 
2. A sensation. Specifically (a) A sensation con- 
veyed by the sense of touch. (6) More comprehensively, 
sensation of any kind not assignable to one of the special 
senses of sight, hearing, taste, and smell : as, a feeling of 
warmth; & feeling of pain ; a feeling of drowsiness. 
Some of the organs in their sound condition have no 
organic feelings. Q. T. Ladd, Physiol. Psychology, p. 513. 
3. The immediate quality of what is present to 
consciousness in sensation, desire, or emotion, 
considered apart from all activity of thought ; 
the pure sense-element in consciousness; in 
a loose use, any element of consciousness not 
recognizable as thought or will. The word (that 
is, its equivalent) was introduced into philosophy as an 
exact term in this sense by Tetens, a German Wolftian 
philosopher of the eighteenth century. Kant modified 
the meaning, for the convenience of his system, so as to 
restrict it as in def. 4, below. 
The point which at present concerns us is simply that, 
when feeling is said to be the primordial element in con- 
sciousness, more is usually included under feeling than 
pure pleasure and pain, viz., some characteristic or qual- 
ity by which one pleasurable or painful sensation is distin- 
guishable from another. J. Ward, Encyc. Brit., XX. 40. 
I have in this volume used Feeling as the name for the 
genus of which Sensation (with Muscular Feeling) and 
Emotion are the two species. 
A. Bain, Emotions and Will, p. 615, App. 
It cannot he too strongly urged in the face of mystical 
attempts, however learned, that there is not a landmark, 
not a length, not a point of the compass in real space 
which is not some one of our feelings, either experienced 
directly as a presentation or ideally suggested by another 
feeling which has come to serve as its sign. 
W. Jamts, Mind, XII. 208. 
Feelings which correspond directly with an interaction 
between the organism and its environment are termed 
Of all your royal favours ; but this last 
Strikes through my heart. 
Southern. 
, 
feeling, they cannot find it. Bacon, Great Place Oed. 1887). 
mentsm history are f^^^gffffgSKfS i^^an^^o^^^far^^^. 
The good-hearted old fellow . . . betrayed some feeling Sw. fyr, a young fellow, a chap.] 1. A fellow ; 
Thegood-hei 
at this explosion of grief, and betook himself to soothing a mate ; a companion. 
, 
the young girl. J. E. Cooke, Virginia Comedians, I. xiL 
Specifically 6. Fine or refined sensibility; 
Michael and Gabriel ant Raffael here [their] fere, 
Cherubin ant seraflu a thousend ther were. 
fine emotional endowment ; especially, tender- ileidan Maregrete, st. 75, in ate. Marherete (ed. Cockayne). 
juag or affectionateness of heart ; susceptibili- 
ty ; in an adverse sense, sentimentality : as, a 
man of feeling : sometimes in the plural : as, to 
hurt or injure one's feelings. 
It must be Willoughby, therefore, whom you suspect. 
But why? Is he not a man of honour and feeling? . . . Can 
he be deceitful? Jane Auiten, Sense and Sensibility, xv. 
Your felow &fere me faithfully hold, 
Euer from this owre to the ende of your lyffe ; 
ffor no chaunce, that may cheue, chaunge your wille. 
Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 706. 
Hayle ! the fairest of felde folk for to fynde, 
Fro the fende [fiend] and lasfeeres faithefully vs fende. 
York Plays, p. 135. 
. ., Particularly 2. A mate in marriage; a, 
7. Obscure or vague perception ; belie the gpouse . a husband or wife. 
Thi modour that is tin faderes/ere. 
Booke of Precedence (E. E. T. S., extra ser.), i. 61. 
Charissa to a lovely fere 
It thus appears that when pushed to our last resort, we 
must retire either upon /eto<7 or belief ^or^both indiffer- 
ently. 
. 
reasons for which are not clearly understood : 
as, every one had a, feeling of the truth of this 
statement. 
Was lincked, and by him had many pledges dere. 
Spenser, F. Q., I. x. 4. 
3. [In the form fere, appar. as a var. of feres, 
8. Opinion or determination as founded on or ^JJJ pl taken ag a co n e ctive and abstract 
Str W. Hamilton. 
resulting from emotion 
noun.] Company ; companionship. 
the feeling of the house ^K"&j^g^ H vi In the ton shall be Telamon, that is a tore kyng, 
Macaulay Hist. *.ng vi. ^ ^ ^ , olowes fllrse men of arnlvs . 
1he feeling of the Middle Ages evidently was that bare -- .,,., 
stone inside a building had an unfinished and uncomforta- 
ble look, and was quite as unsuitable in a richly decorated 
and furnished cathedral as it would now be considered in 
a lady's drawing-room. Encyc. Brit., XXIII. 158. 
9. In the fine arts, the impression or emotion 
conveyed by the general expression of a work 
of art, or of some part or detail of it, especially 
as embodying a particular emotion or concep- 
tion of the artist. 
There can be little doubt that the Norman architects, 
, 
Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 1131. 
In fere, in company; together: with reference to persons 
or things. 
The Sowdon thanne rehersid thanne infere 
His displeasur withoute eny fayle. 
Generydes (E. E. T. S.), 1. 1697. 
Certis, whan all is done, 
He comes with folke in feere, 
And will ouere take vs sone. York Plays, p. 157. 
ffyf ty shippes in fere folowet horn two. 
Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 4073. 
with true Gothic feeling, always intended that their f nft -2i n e e /ear 1 
churches should eventually be vaulted, and prepared them v""o T J f -: '> ~ / r al , wi-ittPTi feir Her- < 
accordingly, though in many instances they were con- feel 3 (fer), V. t. [Sc., also , written Jetr, Jier, <. 
structed with wooden roofs, or compromises of some sort. ME. *fyren (not found), < AS. fyrian (once), 
J. Fergussmi, Hist. Arch., I. 516. m ake a furrow, < furh, a furrow: see furrow. ,] 
Between the oak pilasters will be a carved panel of To mark off the breadth of for plowing, as a 
scroll ornament, Renaissance in Seeling. Art Age, IV. 43. r j ( jg e _ Seefeering. 
The same One feeling for greys charms us in both pic- f eer 4 (fer) a See fear 3 . 
t"- Athenceu,,,, Jan. u, 1888, p. 56. ^ erin v (fg'r'ing), B. [Sc., verbal n. of fee,; feir, 
Era of good feeling. Seeera.=Syn. Thoght,etc. see -ft er : 8ee f eer 3.-\ i n agri., the operation in 
feeiing n (fe'ling),p.a. [Ppr.of/ee* 1 ,*.] 1. Pos- plowing of marking off the breadth of a ridge, 
sessing or afficted by sensibility ; easily affect- by drawing a furrow on each side of the space 
ed or moved ; experiencing emotion, especially a11 tor it. 
that of sympathy or" compassion: as, & feeling feese, f. and n. See/eere . 
friend or advocate leet , n. .r/lural OLJOOC. 
Thou art her brother, feet 2 t, An obsolete form of feafl. Chaucer. 
And there must be a feeling heart within thee feetleSS (fet'les), a. [< feet + -less. Seefoot- 
Of her afflictions. Fletcher, Wife for a Month, iii. 2. jess.] Destitute of feet : as, feetleSS insects. 
Yet no complaint before the Lady came ; [Rare ] 
The feeling servant spared the^feeMe darne^ ^ ^ f eze i; feaze l (fe z ), . ; pret. and pp. feezed, 
Grievous and very much to be commiserated is the task fi^ed, w*. feezing, feazing. [The several words 
of the feeling historian who writes the history of his na- spelled feeze, feaze, etc., being chiefly uiale 
tive land. Irving, Knickerbocker, p. 145. or colloquial, have been unstable in spelling, 
2. Expressive of sensibility; manifesting emo- and have become somewhat confused in sense, 
tion or earnestness ; emotive ; earnest : as, a Feere 1 , fease\ also written feese, feize, pheeze, 
