Emily Dickinson Lexicon

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).

1. Examine; explore; detect; perceive by touch; have a physical sensation; ascertain by physical proof; (see Genesis 27:21).
2. Sense mentally; intuit; become aware of; know without physical confirmation.
3. Perceive emotionally; respond subjectively to experience; be affected.
4. Experience; suffer; bear; admit; (see Job 20:20).
5. Live; have life; have being; possess vitality.
6. Search; seek; look; grope; (see Acts 17:27).
7. Appear; seem.
8. Be; exist; abide.
9. Believe; think; consider; judge; hold as an opinion; have a conviction; (see Ecclesiastes 8:5).
10. Phrase. “Feel at home”: be comfortable; be at ease; have a sense of belonging.