felt

adj

Etymology: From Old English fēled, corresponding to feel + -ed.

1. 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.”

noun

Etymology: From Middle English felt, from Old English felt, from Proto-West Germanic *felt (compare Dutch vilt, German Filz, Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish filt, French feutre), from Proto-Indo-European *pilto, *pilso 'felt' (compare Latin pilleus (“felt”, adjective), Old Church Slavonic плъсть (plŭstĭ), Albanian plis, Ancient Greek πῖλος (pîlos)), from *pel- 'to beat'. More at anvil.

1. 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. A hat made of felt.
3. 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. A skin or hide; a fell; a pelt.

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

verb

Etymology: From Old English fēled, corresponding to feel + -ed.

1. simple past and past participle of feel