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