Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Lexicon: feature – feel
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feature (-s), n. [OFr.] (webplay: face, form).
Characteristic; structure; form; appearance.
February (Febuary), proper adj. [see February, proper n.]
Cold; chilly; wintry; blustery; gloomy; dark; stormy; snowy; pertaining to the second month of the year.
February (-'s, Febuary, Febuary's), proper n. [ED spelling of “February”; ME < OFr < L. Roman festival of purification.] (webplay: days, leap, year).
Late winter; second month of the year in the Gregorian calendar; [fig.] blizzard; snow storm; bringer of cold weather; [see ED's letters.]
fed, verbal adj. [see feed, v.]
Phrase. “full fed”: satisfied; wholly gratified; completely nourished; totally fulfilled.
federate (-s), v. [L.]
Govern; permit; control; allow to retain power.
fee, n. [OE.] (webplay: payments).
Cost; payment; price; compensation.
feeble (-est), adj. [OFr] (webplay: force, light, slow, vigor, voice).
Weak; sickly; decrepit; lame; (see Genesis 30:42).
feebly, adv. [see feeble, adj.] (webplay: life, slow, want).
Weakly; clumsily; inefficiently.
feed (-s, -ing, fed), v. [OE.] (webplay: birds, cattle, eye, food, hope, meal, vanity).
- Nourish; consume; intake; fuel.
- Graze; pasture; (see Exodus 22:5).
- Supply; cater to; provide food for; (see Genesis 25:30).
- Sate; fill appetite; (see Job 24:20).
feel (-s, -ing, felt), v. [OE felan, gefelan, grope, touch.] (webplay: acquainted, affected, body, cold, dark, experience, find, gently, grief, groping, hot, hurt, just, know, limbs, moved, pain, passions, perceive, pleasure, search, sense, soft, sound, strike, suffer, touch, try).
- Appear; seem.
- Experience; suffer; bear; admit.
- Live; have life; have being; possess vitality.
- Detect; examine; explore; perceive by touch; have a physical sensation; ascertain by physical proof; (see Genesis 27:21).
- Perceive emotionally; be affected by; respond subjectively to experience.
- Search; seek; look; grope; (see Acts 17:27).
- Sense mentally; intuit; become aware of; know without physical confirmation.
- Believe; think; consider; judge; hold as an opinion; have a conviction.
- Be; exist; abide.
- Phrase. “Feel at home”: be comfortable; be at ease; have a sense of belonging.