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felsitic | felspar | felspath | felspathic | felstone | felt | felt fern | felt fungus | felt hat | felt tip | felt up

felt

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Noun, Verb (usu participle), Verb (intransitive), Verb (transitive)
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17 in 17 verses (in OT : 12 in 12 verses) (in NT : 5 in 5 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

feltimp. & p. p.  
     imp. & p. p. from Feel.  [1913 Webster]
feltn. [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.].
  •  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.  [1913 Webster]
    "It were a delicate stratagem to shoe
    A troop of horse with felt.
    "  [1913 Webster]
  •  A hat made of felt.  Thynne.  [1913 Webster]
  •  A skin or hide; a fell; a pelt.  [1913 Webster]
    "To know whether sheep are sound or not, see that the felt be loose."  [1913 Webster]
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.
feltv. t. 
  •  To make into felt, or a feltike substance; to cause to adhere and mat together.  Sir M. Hale.  [1913 Webster]
  •  To cover with, or as with, felt; as, to felt the cylinder of a steam engine.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

felt, n. & v.
--n.
1 a kind of cloth made by rolling and pressing wool etc., or by weaving and shrinking it.
2 a similar material made from other fibres.
--v.
1 tr. make into felt; mat together.
2 tr. cover with felt.
3 intr. become matted.

Idiom
felt-tipped (or felt-tip) pen a pen with a writing-point made of felt or fibre.
Derivative
felty adj.
felt, past and past part. of FEEL.

THESAURUS

felt

cloth, drapery, etoffe, fabric, goods, lace, material, napery, rag, silk, stuff, textile, textile fabric, texture, tissu, tissue, weave, web, weft, woof, wool

ROGET THESAURUS

felt

Crossing

N crossing, intersection, interdigitation, decussation, transversion, convolution, level crossing, reticulation, network, inosculation, anastomosis, intertexture, mortise, net, plexus, web, mesh, twill, skein, sleeve, felt, lace, wicker, mat, matting, plait, trellis, wattle, lattice, grating, grille, gridiron, tracery, fretwork, filigree, reticle, tissue, netting, mokes, rivulation, cross, chain, wreath, braid, cat's cradle, knot, entangle, cloth, linen, muslin, cambric, crossing, crossed, matted, v, transverse, cross, cruciform, crucial, retiform, reticular, reticulated, areolar, cancellated, grated, barred, streaked, textile, crossbarred, cruciate, palmiped, secant, web-footed, cross, thwart, athwart, transversely, at grade, crosswise.

VB cross, decussate, intersect, interlace, intertwine, intertwist, interweave, interdigitate, interlink, twine, entwine, weave, inweave, twist, wreathe, anastomose, inosculate, dovetail, splice, link, lace, tat, mat, plait, plat, braid, felt, twill, tangle, entangle, ravel, net, knot, dishevel, raddle.


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