Word Finder - felt

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A cloth or stuff made of matted fibres 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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A hat made of felt.

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A skin or hide; a fell; a pelt.

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To make into felt, or a feltlike substance; to cause to adhere and mat together.

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To cover with, or as if with, felt.

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to felt the cylinder of a steam engine

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To cause a player to lose all their chips.

I didn't know you felt that way.

The mattress felt so good.

He felt sick to his stomach again.

He felt sad and depressed.

It was how she felt about Alex.

Her mouth felt dry and her voice was barely a whisper.

Maybe we would have felt this way with them if things had been different.

She felt that Jim would know more about the Saw-Horse later on.

My hands felt every object and observed every motion, and in this way I learned to know many things.

His mother smiled, for she felt quite sure that there was no danger.

The other girls felt sorry that she should suffer for so small a fault.

The merchant felt sure that the fishermen were having a good haul.

I felt the hot breath from the engine on my face, and the smoke and ashes almost choked us.

I felt tears on my hand.

But the nearer he drew to the house the more he felt the impossibility of going to sleep on such a night.

In fact, what she felt was pity.

Tonight it felt comfortable.

She felt as though a cold hand grasped her stomach and squeezed hard.

They used to hang in long festoons from our porch, filling the whole air with their fragrance, untainted by any earthy smell; and in the early morning, washed in the dew, they felt so soft, so pure, I could not help wondering if they did not resemble the asphodels of God's garden.

I felt of him and thought it very strange that he should carry his house on his back.

After the play Miss Sullivan took me to see him behind the scenes, and I felt of his curious garb and his flowing hair and beard.

I think he felt included because he was helping as much as we were.

Carmen felt her face growing warm.

Long afterward James Hogg said, "I never felt so grateful to any creature below the sun as I did to Sirrah that morning."

I felt proud to know that the liberties of Massachusetts and of our fatherland were in such safe keeping; and as I turned to my hoeing again I was filled with an inexpressible confidence, and pursued my labor cheerfully with a calm trust in the future.

Maybe he felt excluded - or maybe he simply needed a little encouragement.

Would she ever reach the point that she felt comfortable about spending the money he had earned before they met?

It was great news and she should have felt relieved.

For a moment he looked as startled as she felt.

The little man felt carefully in his pocket and pulled out the tiny piglets, setting them upon the grass one by one, where they ran around and nibbled the tender blades.

They drew up closer to the fire and felt thankful that they were safe from the raging storm.

I should think the wonderful rhythmical flow of lines and curves could be more subtly felt than seen.

She felt sorry for her and held out her hand with a glance of gentle inquiry.

What felt comfortable only moments ago now seemed bold and foolish.

But then, she admitted to loving him at one time, so it's not hard to believe she still felt something for him.

Maybe he felt that way too.

Somehow it actually felt good.

Her cheeks felt warm.

As my knowledge of things grew I felt more and more the delight of the world I was in.

I felt absolutely alone, cut off from my friends and the firm earth.

I remember the surprise and the pain I felt as I noticed that they placed their hands over mine when I talked to them and that they read books with their fingers.

I had often read the story, but I had never felt the charm of Rip's slow, quaint, kind ways as I did in the play.

Then the great actor gave his coat a hitch and his mouth a twitch, and in an instant I was in the village of Falling Water and felt Schneider's shaggy head against my knee.

She paused as if she felt it indecorous to speak of her pregnancy before Pierre, though the gist of the matter lay in that.

He felt that the condition he was in could not continue long, that a catastrophe was coming which would change his whole life, and he impatiently sought everywhere for signs of that approaching catastrophe.

This man was doing something to his legs in the darkness, and though Pierre could not see his face he felt that the man continually glanced at him.

Carmen felt the full weight of a question that had no answer.

On the other hand, how could Alex be a positive influence if his Uncle truly felt that way?

It felt strange to have only the two of them at the table.

Sometimes the way Alex looked at him when he was talking - times when he was actually listening to him - it seemed to her that he felt that close bond.