| feel | noun (n.) Feeling; perception. |
| | noun (n.) A sensation communicated by touching; impression made upon one who touches or handles; as, this leather has a greasy feel. |
| | verb (v. t.) To perceive by the touch; to take cognizance of by means of the nerves of sensation distributed all over the body, especially by those of the skin; to have sensation excited by contact of (a thing) with the body or limbs. |
| | verb (v. t.) To touch; to handle; to examine by touching; as, feel this piece of silk; hence, to make trial of; to test; often with out. |
| | verb (v. t.) To perceive by the mind; to have a sense of; to experience; to be affected by; to be sensible of, or sensetive to; as, to feel pleasure; to feel pain. |
| | verb (v. t.) To take internal cognizance of; to be conscious of; to have an inward persuasion of. |
| | verb (v. t.) To perceive; to observe. |
| | verb (v. i.) To have perception by the touch, or by contact of anything with the nerves of sensation, especially those upon the surface of the body. |
| | verb (v. i.) To have the sensibilities moved or affected. |
| | verb (v. i.) To be conscious of an inward impression, state of mind, persuasion, physical condition, etc.; to perceive one's self to be; -- followed by an adjective describing the state, etc.; as, to feel assured, grieved, persuaded. |
| | verb (v. i.) To know with feeling; to be conscious; hence, to know certainly or without misgiving. |
| | verb (v. i.) To appear to the touch; to give a perception; to produce an impression by the nerves of sensation; -- followed by an adjective describing the kind of sensation. |
| heel | noun (n.) The hinder part of the foot; sometimes, the whole foot; -- in man or quadrupeds. |
| | noun (n.) The hinder part of any covering for the foot, as of a shoe, sock, etc.; specif., a solid part projecting downward from the hinder part of the sole of a boot or shoe. |
| | noun (n.) The latter or remaining part of anything; the closing or concluding part. |
| | noun (n.) Anything regarded as like a human heel in shape; a protuberance; a knob. |
| | noun (n.) The part of a thing corresponding in position to the human heel; the lower part, or part on which a thing rests |
| | noun (n.) The after end of a ship's keel. |
| | noun (n.) The lower end of a mast, a boom, the bowsprit, the sternpost, etc. |
| | noun (n.) In a small arm, the corner of the but which is upwards in the firing position. |
| | noun (n.) The uppermost part of the blade of a sword, next to the hilt. |
| | noun (n.) The part of any tool next the tang or handle; as, the heel of a scythe. |
| | noun (n.) Management by the heel, especially the spurred heel; as, the horse understands the heel well. |
| | noun (n.) The lower end of a timber in a frame, as a post or rafter. In the United States, specif., the obtuse angle of the lower end of a rafter set sloping. |
| | noun (n.) A cyma reversa; -- so called by workmen. |
| | noun (n.) The part of the face of the club head nearest the shaft. |
| | noun (n.) In a carding machine, the part of a flat nearest the cylinder. |
| | verb (v. i.) To lean or tip to one side, as a ship; as, the ship heels aport; the boat heeled over when the squall struck it. |
| | verb (v. t.) To perform by the use of the heels, as in dancing, running, and the like. |
| | verb (v. t.) To add a heel to; as, to heel a shoe. |
| | verb (v. t.) To arm with a gaff, as a cock for fighting. |
| | verb (v. t.) To hit (the ball) with the heel of the club. |
| | verb (v. t.) To make (a fair catch) standing with one foot advanced, the heel on the ground and the toe up. |
| keel | noun (n.) A brewer's cooling vat; a keelfat. |
| | noun (n.) A longitudinal timber, or series of timbers scarfed together, extending from stem to stern along the bottom of a vessel. It is the principal timber of the vessel, and, by means of the ribs attached on each side, supports the vessel's frame. In an iron vessel, a combination of plates supplies the place of the keel of a wooden ship. See Illust. of Keelson. |
| | noun (n.) Fig.: The whole ship. |
| | noun (n.) A barge or lighter, used on the Type for carrying coal from Newcastle; also, a barge load of coal, twenty-one tons, four cwt. |
| | noun (n.) The two lowest petals of the corolla of a papilionaceous flower, united and inclosing the stamens and pistil; a carina. See Carina. |
| | noun (n.) A projecting ridge along the middle of a flat or curved surface. |
| | noun (n.) In a dirigible, a construction similar in form and use to a ship's keel; in an aeroplane, a fin or fixed surface employed to increase stability and to hold the machine to its course. |
| | verb (v. t. & i.) To cool; to skim or stir. |
| | verb (v. i.) To traverse with a keel; to navigate. |
| | verb (v. i.) To turn up the keel; to show the bottom. |
| peel | noun (n.) A small tower, fort, or castle; a keep. |
| | noun (n.) A spadelike implement, variously used, as for removing loaves of bread from a baker's oven; also, a T-shaped implement used by printers and bookbinders for hanging wet sheets of paper on lines or poles to dry. Also, the blade of an oar. |
| | noun (n.) The skin or rind; as, the peel of an orange. |
| | verb (v. t.) To plunder; to pillage; to rob. |
| | verb (v. t.) To strip off the skin, bark, or rind of; to strip by drawing or tearing off the skin, bark, husks, etc.; to flay; to decorticate; as, to peel an orange. |
| | verb (v. t.) To strip or tear off; to remove by stripping, as the skin of an animal, the bark of a tree, etc. |
| | verb (v. i.) To lose the skin, bark, or rind; to come off, as the skin, bark, or rind does; -- often used with an adverb; as, the bark peels easily or readily. |
| reel | noun (n.) A lively dance of the Highlanders of Scotland; also, the music to the dance; -- often called Scotch reel. |
| | noun (n.) A frame with radial arms, or a kind of spool, turning on an axis, on which yarn, threads, lines, or the like, are wound; as, a log reel, used by seamen; an angler's reel; a garden reel. |
| | noun (n.) A machine on which yarn is wound and measured into lays and hanks, -- for cotton or linen it is fifty-four inches in circuit; for worsted, thirty inches. |
| | noun (n.) A device consisting of radial arms with horizontal stats, connected with a harvesting machine, for holding the stalks of grain in position to be cut by the knives. |
| | noun (n.) The act or motion of reeling or staggering; as, a drunken reel. |
| | verb (v. t.) To roll. |
| | verb (v. t.) To wind upon a reel, as yarn or thread. |
| | verb (v. i.) To incline, in walking, from one side to the other; to stagger. |
| | verb (v. i.) To have a whirling sensation; to be giddy. |
| seel | noun (n.) Alt. of Seeling |
| | noun (n.) Good fortune; favorable opportunity; prosperity. [Obs.] "So have I seel". |
| | noun (n.) Time; season; as, hay seel. |
| | verb (v. t.) To close the eyes of (a hawk or other bird) by drawing through the lids threads which were fastened over the head. |
| | verb (v. t.) Hence, to shut or close, as the eyes; to blind. |
| | verb (v. i.) To incline to one side; to lean; to roll, as a ship at sea. |
| steel | noun (n.) A variety of iron intermediate in composition and properties between wrought iron and cast iron (containing between one half of one per cent and one and a half per cent of carbon), and consisting of an alloy of iron with an iron carbide. Steel, unlike wrought iron, can be tempered, and retains magnetism. Its malleability decreases, and fusibility increases, with an increase in carbon. |
| | noun (n.) An instrument or implement made of steel |
| | noun (n.) A weapon, as a sword, dagger, etc. |
| | noun (n.) An instrument of steel (usually a round rod) for sharpening knives. |
| | noun (n.) A piece of steel for striking sparks from flint. |
| | noun (n.) Fig.: Anything of extreme hardness; that which is characterized by sternness or rigor. |
| | noun (n.) A chalybeate medicine. |
| | noun (n.) To overlay, point, or edge with steel; as, to steel a razor; to steel an ax. |
| | noun (n.) To make hard or strong; hence, to make insensible or obdurate. |
| | noun (n.) Fig.: To cause to resemble steel, as in smoothness, polish, or other qualities. |
| | noun (n.) To cover, as an electrotype plate, with a thin layer of iron by electrolysis. The iron thus deposited is very hard, like steel. |
| wheel | noun (n.) A circular frame turning about an axis; a rotating disk, whether solid, or a frame composed of an outer rim, spokes or radii, and a central hub or nave, in which is inserted the axle, -- used for supporting and conveying vehicles, in machinery, and for various purposes; as, the wheel of a wagon, of a locomotive, of a mill, of a watch, etc. |
| | noun (n.) Any instrument having the form of, or chiefly consisting of, a wheel. |
| | noun (n.) A spinning wheel. See under Spinning. |
| | noun (n.) An instrument of torture formerly used. |
| | noun (n.) A circular frame having handles on the periphery, and an axle which is so connected with the tiller as to form a means of controlling the rudder for the purpose of steering. |
| | noun (n.) A potter's wheel. See under Potter. |
| | noun (n.) A firework which, while burning, is caused to revolve on an axis by the reaction of the escaping gases. |
| | noun (n.) The burden or refrain of a song. |
| | noun (n.) A bicycle or a tricycle; a velocipede. |
| | noun (n.) A rolling or revolving body; anything of a circular form; a disk; an orb. |
| | noun (n.) A turn revolution; rotation; compass. |
| | verb (v. t.) To convey on wheels, or in a wheeled vehicle; as, to wheel a load of hay or wood. |
| | verb (v. t.) To put into a rotatory motion; to cause to turn or revolve; to cause to gyrate; to make or perform in a circle. |
| | verb (v. i.) To turn on an axis, or as on an axis; to revolve; to more about; to rotate; to gyrate. |
| | verb (v. i.) To change direction, as if revolving upon an axis or pivot; to turn; as, the troops wheeled to the right. |
| | verb (v. i.) To go round in a circuit; to fetch a compass. |
| | verb (v. i.) To roll forward. |
