felt

noun4

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. — 1603
2. •
   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. — 1989
3. •
   A hat made of felt.
4. •
   (no longer used) A skin or hide; a fell; a pelt.

   • To know whether sheep are sound or not, see that the felt be loose. — 1707

verb4

1. •
   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 — 1677
2. •
   To cause (a player) to lose all their chips.
3. •
   (Internet) To thoroughly defeat or humiliate (someone).
4. •
   To cover with, or as if with, felt.

   • to felt the cylinder of a steam engine

adjective1

1. •
   That has been experienced or perceived.

noun1

1. •
   Acronym of fast-evolving luminous transient, a type of supernova.