Who feel
Those rods of scorpions and those whips of steel. Creecn. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Come near, . . . that I may feel thee, my son. Gen. xxvii. 21. [ 1913 Webster ]

He hath this to feel my affection to your honor. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Teach me to feel another's woe. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

Whoso keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil thing. Eccl. viii. 5. [ 1913 Webster ]

He best can paint them who shall feel them most. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

Mankind have felt their strength and made it felt. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To take internal cognizance of; to be conscious of; to have an inward persuasion of. [ 1913 Webster ]

For then, and not till then, he felt himself. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To perceive; to observe. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

To feel the helm (Naut.), to obey it. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To have the sensibilities moved or affected. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ She ] feels with the dignity of a Roman matron. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

And mine as man, who feel for all mankind. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To be conscious of an inward impression, state of mind, persuasion, physical condition, etc.; to perceive one's self to be; -- followed by an adjective describing the state, etc.; as, to feel assured, grieved, persuaded. [ 1913 Webster ]

I then did feel full sick. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To know with feeling; to be conscious; hence, to know certainly or without misgiving. [ 1913 Webster ]

Garlands . . . which I feel
I am not worthy yet to wear. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To appear to the touch; to give a perception; to produce an impression by the nerves of sensation; -- followed by an adjective describing the kind of sensation. [ 1913 Webster ]

Blind men say black feels rough, and white feels smooth. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

To feel after, to search for; to seek to find; to seek as a person groping in the dark. “If haply they might feel after him, and find him.” Acts xvii. 27. --
To feel of, to examine by touching. [ 1913 Webster ]

To intercept and have a more kindly feel of its genial warmth. Hazlitt. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A sensation communicated by touching; impression made upon one who touches or handles; as, this leather has a greasy feel. [ 1913 Webster ]

The difference between these two tumors will be distinguished by the feel. S. Sharp. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Insects . . . perpetually feeling and searching before them with their feelers or antennæ. Derham. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Anything, as a proposal, observation, etc., put forth or thrown out in order to ascertain the views of others; something tentative. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Expressive of great sensibility; attended by, or evincing, sensibility; as, he made a feeling representation of his wrongs. [ 1913 Webster ]

Why was the sight
To such a tender ball as the eye confined, . . .
And not, as feeling, through all parts diffused? Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

The apprehension of the good
Gives but the greater feeling to the worse. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

A fellow feeling makes one wondrous kind. Garrick. [ 1913 Webster ]

Tenderness for the feelings of others. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]