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Felt grain

Felt \Felt\, n. [AS. felt; akin to D. vilt, G. filz, and possibly to Gr. ? hair or wool wrought into felt, L. pilus hair, pileus a felt cap or hat.]

  1. A cloth or stuff made of matted fibers 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.
    --Shak.

  2. A hat made of felt.
    --Thynne.

  3. A skin or hide; a fell; a pelt. [Obs.]

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

    Felt grain, the grain of timber which is transverse to the annular rings or plates; the direction of the medullary rays in oak and some other timber.
    --Knight.

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felt grain

n. The grain of timber which is transverse to the annular rings or plates; the direction of the medullary rays in oak and some other timbers.