Definition of "felt"

felt¹

/fɛlt/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural felts
1. A cloth or stuff made of matted fibres 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.
  Quotations
  It were a delicate stratagem to shoe A troop of horse with felt.
  c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act IV, scene vi]
2. A hat made of felt.
3. A felt-tip pen.
  Quotations
  You'll notice that all the illustrations are done in different media: some with pencil crayons, some with felts, some with paint, some with chalk pastels.
  1989, Anne D. Forester, Margaret Reinhard, The Learners' Way, page 116
4. (obsolete) A skin or hide; a fell; a pelt.
  Quotations
  To know whether sheep are sound or not, see that the felt be loose.
  1707, John Mortimer, The whole art of husbandry
verb
third-person singular simple present felts, present participle felting, simple past and past participle felted
1. (transitive) To make into felt, or a feltlike substance; to cause to adhere and mat together.
  Quotations
  the same Wool , for instance , one Men felts it into a Hat, another weaves it into Cloth , another weaves it into Kersey or Serge
  a. 1677, Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature, London: […] William Godbid, for William Shrowsbery, […], published 1677
2. (transitive) To cover with, or as if with, felt.
3. (transitive, poker) To cause a player to lose all their chips.

felt²

/fɛlt/

verb
1. simple past and past participle of feel
adjective
comparative more felt, superlative most felt
1. That has been experienced or perceived.
  Quotations
  Conversions to Islam can therefore be a deeply felt aesthetic experience that rarely occurs in Christian accounts of conversion, which are generally the source rather than the result of a Christian experience of beauty.
  2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 257

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