Emily Dickinson Lexicon

FEEL-ING, n.

1. The sense of touch; the sense by which we perceive external objects which come in contact with the body, and obtain ideas of their tangible qualities; one of the five senses. It is by feeling we know that a body is hard or soft, hot or cold, wet or dry, rough or smooth.
2. Sensation; the effect of perception. The apprehension of the good / Gives but the greater feeling to the worse. Shak.
3. Faculty or power of perception; sensibility. Their king, out of a princely feeling, was sparing and compassionate toward his subjects. Bacon.
4. Nice sensibility; as, a man of feeling.
5. Excitement; emotion.