Felt (?),
imp. & p. p. ∨ a. from Feel.
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Felt (?), n. [AS. felt; akin to D. vilt, G. filz, and possibly to Gr. hair or wool wrought into felt, L. pilus hair, pileus a felt cap or hat.]
1.
A cloth or stuff made of matted fibers of wool, or wool and fur, fulled or wrought into a compact substance by rolling and pressure, with lees or size, without spinning or weaving.
It were a delicate stratagem to shoe
A troop of horse with felt.
Shak
.
2.
A hat made of felt.
Thynne.
3.
A skin or hide; a fell; a pelt.
[Obs.]
To know whether sheep are sound or not, see that the felt be loose.
Mortimer.
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Felt, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Felted; p. pr. & vb. n. Felting.]
1.
To make into felt, or a feltike substance; to cause to adhere and mat together.
Sir M. Hale.
2.
To cover with, or as with, felt; as, to felt the cylinder of a steam emgine.
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