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Having the attention, thoughts, etc., absorbed in any matter, and the feelings more or less excited by it, as, to be full of some project. Every one is full of the miracles done by cold baths on decayed and weak constitutions. Locke.

To feel or grope about; to make awkward attempts to do or find something. Adams now began to fumble in his pockets. Fielding.

External appearance, as expressive of the feelings or character; looks; fashion or manner, as of speech. You thought, because he could not speak English in the native garb, he could not therefore handle an English cudgel. Shak.

sympathy; enlivening; kindly; as, she was of a cheerful and genial disposition. So much I feel my genial spirits droop. Milton.

Tribal feeling; devotion to one's gens.

; a pang. Conscience . . . is freed from many fearful girds and twinges which the atheist feels. Tillotson.

To feel hot; to have a burning sensation, as of the skin, from friction, exercise, etc.; to burn. Did not his temples glow In the same sultry winds and acrching heats Addison. The cord slides swiftly through his glowing hands. Gay.

Having a reverential and loving feeling towards God; religious. A brave good-fearing man. Tennyson.

od turn, an act of kidness; a favor. -- Good will. (a) Benevolence; well wishing; kindly feeling. (b) (Law) The custom of any trade or business; the tendency or inclination of persons, old customers and others, to resort to an established place of business; the advantage accruing from tendency or inclination. The good…

To grope; to feel with the hands. He puts his hands into his pockets, and keeps a grabbling and fumbling. Selden.

The state of being grateful; warm and friendly feeling toward a benefactor; kindness awakened by a favor received; thankfulness. The debt immense of endless gratitude. Milton.

Superior; admirable; commanding; -- applied to thoughts, actions, and feelings.

To feel grief; to be in pain of mind on account of an evil; to sorrow; to mourn; -- often followed by at, for, or over. Do not you grieve at this. Shak.

tenance, whether habitual, from affectation, or momentary aad occasional, to express some feeling, as contempt, disapprobation, complacency, etc.; a smirk; a made-up face. Moving his face into such a hideons grimace, that every feature of it appeared under a different distortion. Addison.

To feel with or use the hands; to handle. [Obs.]

One who gropes; one who feels his way in the dark, or searches by feeling.

Not easily aroused or excited; not sensitive in perception or feeling; dull; witless. Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear. Milton.

To feel or grope in the dark. [Obs.] Dryden.

To feel compunction or grief. [Obs.] Bp. Fisher.

Evincing or indicating guilt; involving guilt; as, a guilty look; a guilty act; a guilty feeling.