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That which is felt or is held as a sentiment, view, or opinion; judgment; notion; opinion. I speak my private but impartial sense With freedom. Roscommon. The municipal council of the city had ceased to speak the sense of the citizens. Macaulay.

To utter sentenciously. [Obs.] Feltham.

Serenity. Feltham.

ap is round, about 3½ inches high, flat-topped, with a visor. The service hat is of soft felt of khaki color, with broad brim and high crown, creased down the middle.

Shade, or gradation of light and color; shading. Feltham.

Not to be injured by shot; shot-proof. [Obs.] Feltham.

always to sharpen with a serrated edge. Cf. Reaping hook, under Reap. When corn has once felt the sickle, it has no more benefit from the sunshine. Shak.

d, heavy, clownish fellow. [Colloq.] Slouth hat, a soft, limp hat of unstiffened cloth or felt.

ively. So quickly they have taken a smack in covetousness. Robynson (More's Utopia). They felt the smack of this world. Latimer.

stry had him spirited away, and carried abroad as a dangerous person. Arbuthnot & Pope. I felt as if I had been spirited into some castle of antiquity. Willis. Spiriting away (Law), causing to leave; the offense of inducing a witness to leave a jurisdiction so as to evade process requiring attendance at trial.…

ause to pass, by compression; often with out, through, etc.; as, to squeeze water through felt.

Nervousness felt before an audience.

ue of; to make into a statue. "The whole man becomes as if statued into stone and earth." Feltham.

To move; to change one's position. I had not power to stir or strive, But felt that I was still alive. Byron.

. [Obs.] Nothing surer ties a friend than freely to subhumerate the burden which was his. Feltham.

To make sullen or sluggish. [Obs.] Sullens the whole body with . . . laziness. Feltham.

To make (a person) haughty. [Obs. & R.] Feltham.

To build a temple for; to appropriate a temple to; as, to temple a god. [R.] Feltham.

Earthiness; worldliness. [Obs.] "A dull and low terrenity." Feltham.

brawn; sinew. Shak. And I myself, who sat apart And watched them, waxed in every limb; I felt the thews of Anakim, The pules of a Titan's heart. Tennyson.