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Feal vs Felt - What's the difference?

feal | felt |

As adjectives the difference between feal and felt

is that feal is cosy; clean; neat while felt is that has been experienced or perceived.

As verbs the difference between feal and felt

is that feal is to hide while felt is to make into felt, or a feltlike substance; to cause to adhere and mat together.

As an adverb feal

is in a feal manner.

As a noun felt is

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.

feal

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) fele, .

Alternative forms

* (l), (l), (l), (l)

Adjective

(en-adj)
  • (of things) Cosy; clean; neat.
  • *1847 , Henry Scott Riddell, Poems, songs and miscellaneous pieces :
    • But if it stands in humble hame The bed, — I'll say this far in't, — Is clean and feel as ony lair King ever lay on — and that is mair Than mony ane could warrant.
  • (of persons) Comfortable; cosy; safe.
  • * 1887 , Allan Cunningham, Henry Morley, Traditional tales of the English and Scottish peasantry :
    • [...] when I care na to accompany ye to the kirkyard hole mysel, and take my word for't, ye'Il lie saftest and fealest on the Buittle side of the kirk; [...]
  • Smooth; soft; downy; velvety.
    • Derived terms
    * (l), (l)

    Adverb

    (en-adv)
  • In a feal manner.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) felen, from (etyl) .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (dialectal) To hide.

    • Etymology 3

    (Not found in Middle English), from (etyl) feal, collateral form of feeil, from (etyl) fidelis.

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • (archaic) faithful, loyal

    • Derived terms

    * fealty

    felt

    English

    Etymology 1

    (etyl) felt, from (etyl) ), from *pel- 'to beat'. More at anvil.

    Noun

    (wikipedia felt) (-)
  • 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.
  • * Shakespeare, King Lear , act 4, scene 6:
    • It were a delicate stratagem to shoe A troop of horse with felt .
  • A hat made of felt.
  • (obsolete) A skin or hide; a fell; a pelt.
  • * 1707 , John Mortimer, The whole art of husbandry :
    • To know whether sheep are sound or not, see that the felt be loose.
    Related terms
    * 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-tip pen * coated felt sheet * saturated felt

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make into felt, or a feltlike substance; to cause to adhere and mat together.
    • (Sir Matthew Hale)
  • To cover with, or as if with, felt.
    • to felt the cylinder of a steam engine

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) .

    Verb

    (head)
  • (feel)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • That has been experienced or perceived.
  • * 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 257:
    • 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.

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