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To close eyes of; to seel; -- said in reference to a hawk. [Obs.]

To encircle. Shak.

Light-heeled; gay; frisky; frolicsome. [Colloq.]

the skin; to have sensation excited by contact of (a thing) with the body or limbs. Who feel Those rods of scorpions and those whips of steel. Creecn.

One who, or that which, feels.

Possessing great sensibility; easily affected or moved; as, a feeling heart.

In a feeling manner; pathetically; sympathetically.

Sympathy; a like feeling.

To share through sympathy; to participate in. [R.] D. Rodgers.

An amusement device consisting of a giant power-driven steel wheel, revolvable on its stationary axle, and carrying a number of balanced passenger cars around its rim; -- so called after G. W. G. Ferris, American engineer, who erected the first of its kind for the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893.…

A projection downward from the keel of a yacht, resembling in shape the fin of a fish, though often with a cigar-shaped bulb of lead at the bottom, and generally made of metal. Its use is to ballast the boat and also to enable her to sail close to the wind and to make the least possible leeway by offering great resista…

To feel beforehand; to have a presentiment of. [Obs.] As when, with unwieldy waves, the great sea forefeels winds. Chapman.

Having four wheels.

A vehicle having four wheels. [Colloq.]

Frailty. [Obs.] Chaucer.

straint or compulsion; abundantly; gratuitously. Of every tree of the garden thou mayst freely eat. Gen. ii. 16. Freely ye have received, freely give. Matt. x. 8. Freely they stood who stood, and fell who fell. Milton. Freely we serve Because we freely love. Milton.

clutch fitted in the rear hub of a cycle, which engages the rear sprocket with the rear wheel when the pedals are rotated forwards, but permits the rear wheel to run on free from the rear sprocket when the pedals are stopped or rotated backwards. Freewheelcycles are usually fitted with hub brakes or rim brakes, operate…

A tool for ornamenting the edge of a sole.

f taste or behavior; adapted to a refined or cultivated taste; polite; well-bred; as, genteel company, manners, address.

Somewhat genteel.