feedbag

A nose-bag for a horse or mule, to contain his noon-day feed. IMG:content-1506.png:[blocks in formation] 1. Steam -eng.: A cistern containing water and communicating with the boiler of a steam-engine by a pipe, to supply the water by the gravity of th water, the height being made sufficient to overcome the pre ure within the boiler. them to garments; pins, needles, and hooks and eyes to the machines which stick and paper them. 5. Iron - found .: A head or supply of fluid iron to a runner or mold in heavy castings. 6. Nail - making : A contrivance with an intermit- tent oscillating or semi-rotary and forward motion to present the plate to the cutters, so that the head of the nail may be taken from the respective edges alternately. feed-wheel, s. A continuously or intermittingly system a feeder may be positive or negative; in the revolving wheel or disc which carries forward an object or material. IMG:content-1507.png:[blocks in formation] three-wire system there is also a neutral feeder. Often the term feeder includes the group of two or three parallel lines. ( Sloane .) feed-ing, *fed-yng, *fed-ynge, pr . par ., a. & 8. [FEED, v.] 1. The act of supplying with food or nourishment. 2. The act of taking food or eating. "There is a sacramental feeding and a spiritual feed- ing."-Water land: Works, vii. 101. IMG:content-1508.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1509.png:[blocks in formation] 1. To have the pa ions moved. "Oh! could I feel as I have felt, or be what I have been." Byron: Stanzas for Music. 1. To perceive by the touch; to have a sensation caused by contact with any part of the body. 2. To touch, to handle. "Her other tender hand his fair cheek feels ." Shakesp.: Venus and Adonis , 352. IMG:content-1510.png:[blocks in formation] Whose ev'ry touch would force the feeler's soul To the oath of loyalty." IMG:content-1511.png:[blocks in formation] 1800 child may talk of an unpleasant feeling ; a profe ional man talks of the sensation of giddine : it is our duty to command and curb our feelings ; it is folly to watch every pa ing sensation . The feeling , in a moral sense, has its seat in the heart; it is transitory and variable: sense has its seat in the understanding; it is permanent and regular. We may have feelings of anger, ill-will, envy, and the like, which cannot be too quickly overpowered, and succeeded by those of love, charity, and benevolence; although there is no feeling , however good, which does not require to to be kept under control by a proper sense of religion." (2) He thus discriminates between feeling , sensi bility , and susceptibility : "Sensibility is always taken in the se sense of a habit. Traits of feeling in young people are happy omens in the estimation of the preceptor: an exquisite sensibility is not a desirable gift; it creates an infinite disproportion of pains. Feeling and sensibility are here taken as moral properties, which are awakened as much by the operations of the mind within itself as by ex. ternal objects. Susceptibility designates that prop. erty of the body or the mind which consists in being