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Webster 1913 Edition

Felt

Felt

,
imp.
&
p.
p.
or
Adj.
from
Feel
.

Felt

,
Noun.
[AS.
felt
; akin to D.
vilt
, G.
filz
, and possibly to Gr. [GREEK] 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.
Shakespeare
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.
Felt grain
,
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.

Felt

,
Verb.
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 engine
.

Webster 1828 Edition

Felt

FELT

, pret. of feel.

FELT

,
Noun.
[L. pellis, Eng. fell, a skin from plucking or stripping, L. vello, vellus, Eng. wool.]
1.
A cloth or stuff made of wool, or wool and hair, fulled or wrought into a compact substance by rolling and pressure with lees or size.
2.
A hat made of wool.
3.
Skin.
To know whether sheep are sound or not, see that the felt be loose.

FELT

,
Verb.
T.
To make cloth or stuff of wool, or wool and hair, by fulling.

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