Felt

n. [ AS. felt; akin to D. vilt, G. filz, and possibly to Gr. &unr_; hair or wool wrought into felt, L. pilus hair, pileus a felt cap or hat. ] 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

It were a delicate stratagem to shoe
A troop of horse with felt. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A hat made of felt. Thynne. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A skin or hide; a fell; a pelt. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

To know whether sheep are sound or not, see that the felt be loose. Mortimer. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. Sir M. Hale. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To cover with, or as with, felt; as, to felt the cylinder of a steam engine. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To clot or mat together like felt. [ 1913 Webster ]

His feltered locks that on his bosom fell. Fairfax. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The material of which felt is made; also, felted cloth; also, the process by which it is made. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of splitting timber by the felt grain. [ 1913 Webster ]