Word Meanings - GROPER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who gropes; one who feels his way in the dark, or searches by feeling.

FEELINGLY
In a feeling manner; pathetically; sympathetically.
FEELER
One of the sense organs or certain animals , which are used in testing objects by touch and in searching for food; an antenna; a palp. Insects . . . perpetually feeling and searching before them with their feelers or antennæ. Derham. 3. Anything,
FEELING
1. Possessing great sensibility; easily affected or moved; as, a feeling heart. 2. Expressive of great sensibility; attended by, or evincing, sensibility; as, he made a feeling representation of his wrongs.
FEEL
f; akin to OS. gif to perceive, D. voelen to feel, OHG. fuolen, G. fühlen, Icel. falma to grope, and prob. to AS. folm paim of the hand, 1. To perceive by the touch; to take cognizance of by means of the nerves of sensation distributed all over
MISFEELING
Insensate. Wyclif.
FELLOW-FEELING
1. Sympathy; a like feeling. 2. Joint interest. Arbuthnot.
FELLOWFEEL
To share through sympathy; to participate in. D. Rodgers.
FOREFEEL
To feel beforehand; to have a presentiment of. As when, with unwieldy waves, the great sea forefeels winds. Chapman.
UNFEELING
1. Destitute of feeling; void of sensibility; insensible; insensate. 2. Without kind feelings; cruel; hard-hearted. To each his sufferings: all are men, Condemned alike to groan; The tender for another's pain, Th' unfeeling for his own. Gray. --