feel able (felabl)

[ IMG:content-1184.png:[blocks in formation] Had I this cheek, To bathe my lips upon; this hand, whose touch, Whose every touch, would force the feeler's soul To the oath of loyalty. Shak ., Cymbeline, i. 7. He [Thoreau] was not a strong thinker, but a sensitive Lowell, Study Windows, p. 207. feeler . state or element of consciousne having a pleasurable or a painful aspect. As to the meaning of the term, it is plain that further definition is requisite for a word that may mean (a) a touch, as feeling of roughne ; (6) an organic sensation, as feel ing of hunger; (c) an emotion, as feeling of anger; (d) feeling proper, as pleasure or pain. But, even taking feeling in the last, its strict sense, it has been maintained that all the more complex forms of consciousne are resolvable into, or at least have been developed from, feel ings of pleasure and pain. J. Ward, Encyc. Brit., XX. 40. The feeling , the pleasurable or painful tone of the sensation, is always recognized as purely and simply a way in which the mind is affected. G. T. Ladd, Physiol. Psychology, p. 504. Hence-5. An emotion in so far as it is immediately present to consciousne , not having regard to the physiological disturbance which is one of its elements; the capacity for emotion; mental state, disposition, or faculty as Specifically-2. Any special organ of touch of regards emotion: as, a feeling of sympathy; a an animal; a tactile part. (a) A common name applied to the antennæ of insects and crustaceans, and to the palpi of insects and spiders. These organs probably serve as of purposes. feeling of pride in the history of one's country. See cmotion, 2. Great persons had need to borrow other men's opinions to think themselves happy, for if they judge by their own organouchaltentacles (c) A cir feeling, they cannot find it. Bacon, Great Place (ed. 1887), rus of a cirriped, as one of the legs of a barnacle. (d) A whisker or rictal vibri a. The long whiskers or feelers of many animals, as the cat. Mivart, Elem. Anat., p. 243. 3. The representation on an artificial fly of an antenna of an insect. Feelers are folded back, extending above and sometimes beyond the wings. The feelers , which, by a great stretch of imagination, are supposed to represent the antennæ of a natural fly, are the two long fibres of macaw tail feather tied in on each side of the head, and extending back over the wings. Sportsman's Gazetteer , p. 600. 4. Any indirect act, device, stratagem, or plan resorted to for the purpose of finding out something which cannot be ascertained directly, especially the designs, opinions, or sentiments of others. After putting forth his right leg now and then as a feeler, the victim who dropped the money ventures to make one or two distinct dives after it. Dickens, Sketches, i. 5. Naut., the first onset of a storm, followed by a short calm. - Long feeler, the antenna proper of a crustacean. Short feeler. Same as antennula, 3.