FELT

n. v.

6 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
n.

imp. & p. p. or a. from Feel.

2.
n.

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. It were a delicate stratagem to shoe A troop of horse with felt. Shak .

3.
n.

A hat made of felt. Thynne.

4.
n.

A skin or hide; a fell; a pelt. [Obs.] To know whether sheep are sound or not, see that the felt be loose. Mortimer.

5.
v.

To make into felt, or a feltike substance; to cause to adhere and mat together. Sir M. Hale.

6.
v.

To cover with, or as with, felt; as, to felt the cylinder of a steam emgine.

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