felt

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)A cloth or stuff made of matted fibres 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. (countable, uncountable)A hat made of felt.
3. (countable, uncountable)A felt-tip pen.

   “You'll notice that all the illustrations are done in different media: some with pencil crayons, some with felts, some with paint, some with chalk pastels.”

4. (countable, obsolete, uncountable)A skin or hide; a fell; a pelt.

   “To know whether sheep are sound or not, see that the felt be loose.”

5. (abbreviation, acronym, alt-of)Acronym of fast-evolving luminous transient, a type of supernova.

verb

1. (transitive)To make into felt or a feltlike substance; to cause to adhere and mat together.

   “the same Wool , for instance , one Men felts it into a Hat, another weaves it into Cloth , another weaves it into Kersey or Serge”

2. (transitive)To cover with, or as if with, felt.

   “to felt the cylinder of a steam engine”

3. (transitive)To cause (a player) to lose all their chips.
4. (Internet, broadly, transitive)To thoroughly defeat or humiliate (someone).
5. (form-of, participle, past, transitive)simple past and past participle of feel

adj

1. (transitive)That has been experienced or perceived.

   “Conversions to Islam can therefore be a deeply felt aesthetic experience that rarely occurs in Christian accounts of conversion, which are generally the source rather than the result of a Christian experience of beauty.”

name

1. A surname.

   “Anaïs Felt, a 31-year-old content creator based in the San Francisco Bay area, has “never felt better” after taking a microretirement this year. […] In the caption, Felt noted that the break is “totally worth it” if you have the money. She’s “childfree” and had saved up “a sizable chunk” of funds before quitting her 9-to-5.”