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The act of insulting; abusive or insolent treatment; insult. [Obs.] Feltham.

One who intends. Feltham.

ter covering for anything, esp. a covering of some nonconducting material such as wood or felt, used to prevent radiation of heat, as from a steam boiler, cylinder, pipe, etc.

ent by words or actions; to joke; to make light of anything. He jests at scars that never felt a wound. Shak.

A knob, lump, swelling, or protuberance. With lips serenely placid, felt the knot Climb in her throat. Tennyson.

c of, or like, the Spartans; hence, stern or severe; cruel; unflinching. His head had now felt the razor, his back the rod; all that laconical discipline pleased him well. Bp. Hall.

Ladylike; not rough; gentle. [Obs.] "Stroked with a ladied land." Feltham.

se; full; profuse. I might be very large upon the importance and advantages of education. Felton.

ody of lieutenants or subordinates. [Obs.] The list of the lieutenancy of our metropolis. Felton.

ation; spirit; vivacity; vigor; energy. No notion of life and fire in fancy and in words. Felton. That gives thy gestures grace and life. Wordsworth.

en with words only. -- Lip comforter, one who comforts with words only. -- Lip labor, unfelt or insincere speech; hypocrisy. Bale. -- Lip reading, the catching of the words or meaning of one speaking by watching the motion of his lips without hearing his voice. Carpenter. -- Lip salve, a salve for sore lips. -- Li…

mparison of these divine writers, the noblest wits of the heathen world are low and dull. Felton.

A piece of felt to cover the eye of a vicious horse.

To twist, twine, or felt together; to interweave into, or like, a mat; to entangle. And o'er his eyebrows hung his matted hair. Dryden.

Loss; want; felt absence. [Obs.] There will be no great miss of those which are lost. Locke.

mirror for inspecting the mouth or teeth. -- Mouth honor, honor given in words, but not felt. Shak. -- Mouth organ. (Mus.) (a) Pan's pipes. See Pandean. (b) An harmonicon. -- Mouth pipe, an organ pipe with a lip or plate to cut the escaping air and make a sound. -- To stop the mouth, to silence or be silent; to pu…

Spoken without sincerity; not heartfelt. "Mouth-made vows." Shak.

them. Matt. ix. 36. [The use of images] in orations and poetry is to move pity or terror. Felton.

Woolly or villous surface of felt, cloth, plants, etc.; an external covering of down, of short fine hairs or fibers forming part of the substance of anything, and lying smoothly in one direction; the pile; -- as, the nap of cotton flannel or of broadcloth.

A sheet of partially felted fur before it is united to the hat body. Knight.