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vation. The best writers have been perplexed with notes, and obscured with illustrations. Felton.

Of no faith; also, not trusting to faith for salvation; -- opposed to Ant: solifidian. Feltham.

The act of pleasing highly; the state of being greatly pleased; delight. [R.] Feltham.

Conceitedly. Feltham.

Ostentatious. [Obs.] Feltham.

Capable of being touched and felt; perceptible by the touch; as, a palpable form. Shak. Darkness must overshadow all his bounds, Palpable darkness. Milton.

Similar in texture or appearance to felt or woolen cloth.

Let him pass for a man." Shak. False eloquence passeth only where true is not understood. Felton. This will not pass for a fault in him. Atterbury.

, The ruling passion conquers reason still. Pope. Who walked in every path of human life, Felt every passion. Akenside. When statesmen are ruled by faction and interest, they can have no passion for the glory of their country. Addison.

To come to a period; to conclude. [Obs.] "You may period upon this, that," etc. Felthman.

To be a pet. Feltham.

A kind of skull cap of felt.

Keenly felt desire; a longing. Though it have the pique, and long, 'Tis still for something in the wrong. Hudibras.

Open; clear; unencumbered; equal; fair. Our troops beat an army in plain fight. Felton.

To harden, as hat bodies, by felting.

Populace. [Obs.] Feltham.

To postpone. [Obs.] Feltham.

To tipple; to drink. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] It is less labor to plow than to pot it. Feltham.

To make a preamble to; to preface; to serve as a preamble. [R.] Feltham. Milton.

the memory of imagination; -- distinguished from symbolic. How greatly the word "will" is felt to have lost presentive power in the last three centuries. Earle. -- Pre*sent"ive*ly, adv. -- Pre*sent"ive*ness, n.