Felt /(?)/

Felt

imp. & p. p. [or] a.
  1. imp. & p. p. [or] a. from Feel.

Felt

n.
  1. A cloth or stuff made of matted fibers 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.
    It were a delicate stratagem to shoe A troop of horse with felt.
  2. A hat made of felt.
  3. A skin or hide; a fell; a pelt. [Obs.]
    To know whether sheep are sound or not, see that the felt be loose.

Phrases & Compounds
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.

Felt

v. t.

imp. & p. p. Felted; p. pr. & vb. n. Felting

  1. To make into felt, or a feltike substance; to cause to adhere and mat together.
  2. To cover with, or as with, felt; as, to felt the cylinder of a steam engine.