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, without spinning or weaving. It were a delicate stratagem to shoe A troop of horse with felt. Shak .

, the grain of timber which is transverse to the annular rings or plates; the direction of the medullary rays in oak and some other timber. Knight.

To clot or mat together like felt. His feltered locks that on his bosom fell. Fairfax.

The material of which felt is made; also, felted cloth; also, the process by which it is made.

See Felt, n. [Obs.]

Hearty; sincere.

Felt in one's own breast; inward; private. "Home-felt quiet. Pope.

Felt inwardly; heartfelt. [R.] The baron stood afar off, or knelt in submissive, acknowledged, infelt inferiority. Milman.

inferiority; to put to shame; to disconcert; to discomfit. Abashed, the devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is. Milton. He was a man whom no check could abash. Macaulay.

In a abstract manner; separately; in or by itself. Feltham.

t impressions: by acuteness of intellect, we discern nice distinctions. Perhaps, also, he felt his professional acuteness interested in bringing it to a successful close. Sir W. Scott.

To exhort; to advise. [Obs.] Feltham.

A sickness felt by aëronauts due to high speed of flights and rapidity in changing altitudes, combining some symptoms of mountain sickness and some of seasickness.

Not sounding or sounded. [R.] C. C. Felton.

To reduce to atoms. [Obs.] Feltham.

Beaver cloth, a heavy felted woolen cloth, used chiefly for making overcoats. Beaver rat (Zoöl.), an aquatic ratlike quadruped of Tasmania (Hydromys chrysogaster). -- Beaver skin, the furry skin of the beaver. -- Bank beaver. See under 1st Bank.

Of or pertaining to war; warlike; martial. [Obs.] "Bellic Cæsar." Feltham.

A round, low-crowned felt hat; a wideawake. "The undignified billycocks and pantaloons of the West." B. H. Chamberlain.

treat or impregnate with bitumen; to cement with bitumen. "Bituminated walls of Babylon." Feltham.

rkly, in color; gloomily; threateningly; atrociously. "Deeds so blackly grim and horrid." Feltham.