FEE'LING, ppr.
1. Perceiving by the touch having perception.
2. a. Expressive of great sensibility affecting tending to excite the passions. He made a feeling representation of his wrongs. He spoke with feeling eloquence.
3. Possessing great sensibility easily affected or moved as a feeling man a feeling heart.
4. Sensibly or deeply affected as, I had a feeling sense of his favors. This use is not analogical, but common.
FEE'LING, n.
1. The sense of touch the sense by which we perceive external objects which come in contact with the body, and obtain ideas of their tangible qualities one of the five senses. It is by feeling we know that a body is hard or soft, hot or cold, wet or dry, rough or smooth.
2. Sensation the effect of perception.
The apprehension of the good gives but the greater feeling to the worse.
3. Faculty or power of perception sensibility.
Their king, out of a princely feeling, was sparing and compassionate towards his subjects.
4. Nice sensibility as a man of feeling.
5. Excitement emotion.