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A piece of rubber, felt, or woolen cloth, used in the tympan to make it soft and elastic.

Without blemish; spotless. A life in all so blemishless. Feltham.

Sheathing a vessel with planking over felt.

ocess of separating and distributing the fur or hair by means of a bow, to prepare it for felting.

tunes. Brooding on unprofitable gold. Dryden. Brooding over all these matters, the mother felt like one who has evoked a spirit. Hawthorne. When with downcast eyes we muse and brood. Tennyson.

nse said to have originated from a remark made by Roosevelt on a certain occasion that he felt "like a bull moose." [Cant]

hraseology without understanding or sincerity; empty, solemn speech, implying what is not felt; hypocrisy. They shall hear no cant fromF. W. Robertson

A heavy woven or felted fabric, usually of wool, but also of cotton, hemp, straw, etc.; esp. a floor covering made in breadths to be sewed together and nailed to the floor, as distinguished from a rug or mat; originally, also, a wrought cover for tables. Tables and beds covered with copes instead of carpets and coverle…

Vexation; mortification. I must own that I felt rather vexation and chagrin than hope and satisfaction. Richard Porson. Hear me, and touch Belinda with chagrin. Pope.

To utter rapidly and inconsiderately. Feltham. To clack wool, to cut off the sheep's mark, in order to make the wool weigh less and thus yield less duty. [Eng.]

To combine or unite. [Obs.] "Co-uned together." Feltham.

Rendering mutual aid; coadjutant. Feltham.

cription. Tyndall. The tongue whose strains were cogent as commands, Revered at home, and felt in foreign lands. Cowper.

The act or state of dwelling together, or in the same place with another. Feltham.

One who confers any benefit. [Obs.] Feltham.

t." Calamy. -- To come off from, to leave. "To come off from these grave disquisitions." Felton. -- To come on. (a) To advance; to make progress; to thrive. (b) To move forward; to approach; to supervene. -- To come out. (a) To pass out or depart, as from a country, room, company, etc. "They shall come out with grea…

l; inconspicuous; ordinary; plebeian; -- often in a depreciatory sense. The honest, heart-felt enjoyment of common life. W. Irving. This fact was infamous And ill beseeming any common man, Much more a knight, a captain and a leader. Shak. Above the vulgar flight of common souls. A. Murpphy.

To enter in a commonplace book, or to reduce to general heads. Felton.

of the same country, and having like interests and feeling. The distrust with which they felt themselves to be regarded by their compatriots in America. Palfrey.

That may be complained of. [R.] Feltham.