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f motives on the mind; the pressure of civilization. Where the pressure of danger was not felt. Macaulay.

To prick slightly, as with prickles, or fine, sharp points. Felt a horror over me creep, Prickle skin, and catch my breath. Tennyson.

Characterized by intensity; deeply felt; pervading; overmastering; far-reaching; strongly impressed; as, a profound sleep. "Profound sciatica." Shak. Of the profound corruption of this class there can be no doubt. Milman.

Affording protection; sheltering; defensive. " The favor of a protective Providence." Feltham. Protective coloring (Zoöl.), coloring which serves for the concealment and preservation of a living organism. Cf. Mimicry. Wallace. -- Protective tariff (Polit. Econ.), a tariff designed to secure protection (see Protection,…

The first motion of the fetus in the womb felt by the mother, occurring usually about the middle of the term of pregnancy. It has been popularly supposed to be due to the fetus becoming possessed of independent life.

To rail at. [Obs.] Feltham.

Refreshment after hunger or fatique; a repast; a lunch. [His] feeble spirit inly felt refection. Spenser. Those Attic nights, and those refections of the gods. Curran.

Relaxation. [Obs.] Feltham.

To have ( a notion or idea) come into the mind again, as previously perceived, known, or felt; to have a renewed apprehension of; to bring to mind again; to think of again; to recollect; as, I remember the fact; he remembers the events of his childhood; I cannot remember dates. We are said to remember anithing, when th…

Capable of being remitted or forgiven. Feltham.

To bring a sensation of into the mind or sensorium; to cause to be known, felt, or apprehended; to present. Among these. Fancy next Her office holds; of all external things Which he five watchful senses represent, She forms imaginations, aery shapes. Milton.

Inclined to revolve things in the mind; meditative. [Obs.] Feltham.

. fremitus a dull roaring or murmuring.] (Med.) A vibration of the chest wall that may be felt by the hand laid upon its surface. It is caused in the production of rhonchi in the bronchial tubes.

mold; to cast; as, to run bullets, and the like. The purest gold must be run and washed. Felton.

The order, or united body, of saints; saints, considered collectively. It was supposed he felt no call to anu expedition that might sainthood. Sir W. Scott.

Roughness or ruggedness. [Obs.] Feltham.

Evil; wicked; atrocious. [Obs.] "Scelestic villainies." Feltham.

A process in which mercury, or some of its salts, is employed to impart the property of felting to certain kinds of furs. Ure.

ulousness. The industrious bee, by his sedulity in summer, lives in honey all the winter. Feltham.

Felt or apprehended through a sense, or the senses. [R.] Baxter.