It came to me with a sense of something lost that my own countenance blanched in the mine and hospital would so remain colourless like the faces of the men who now stole by me in their felted footwear with a cat-like tread.
The nest of the Chaffinch is an exquisite piece of workmanship, composed of moss, dry grass, fine roots felted together with wool, decorated externally with scraps of white lichens, and lined with hair and feathers.
All the scraps are woven together with threads of fine wool; the dome is felted together, and made rain-proof by a thick coating of moss and lichen, wool and the web of spiders' eggs.
To grow thick together; to become interwoven or felted together like a mat.
The material of which felt is made; also, felted cloth; also, the process by which it is made.
Hat Making) Defn: A sheet of partially felted fur before it is united to the hat body.
Defn: To grow thick together; to become interwoven or felted together like a mat.
The proposed improvement consists merely in the introduction of a felted pressing roller, to act upon the paper after it has been discharged from the mould, and need not therefore be particularly described.
The Megachiles build their honey-jars with disks cut out of leaves; certain Anthidia make felted cotton wallets; others fashion pots out of resin.
The inside of the nest is wellfelted with the down of the madar plant, and then it is finally lined with fine hair and grass stems of the softest kind.
Then she made the mattress andfelted the interior coating, but in a very indifferent manner.
Between the blown cotton and the felted cotton mattresses in price range is found a combination mattress consisting of top and bottom layers of felted cotton, with a center of loose cotton.
As the description implies, it is better than an all-blown cotton mattress and inferior to an all-felted one.
A good felted mattress will give service for many years, but constant use eventually will destroy its resilience and produce lumps.
Cotton mattresses come in three classifications--felted, loose, and combination felted and loose.
Shoddy= is made from old woolen stockings or rags, shredded or picked by hand or machine, to render the yarn suitable for spinning a second time, or to give a fiber that can be woven or felted with a wool or cotton warp.
As a result it becomes matted or felted together, and is hard and brittle and almost worthless.
This beating causes the fibres to interlace and adhere together till the cross-bar pattern made by the warp and weft in weaving is obliterated, and the cloth has the appearance of a felted surface, which, however, is rugged and uneven.
At bottom also the blood-vessels of animals are naught else but passages in felted cellular tissue.
The spinal cord is worth as much as all the visceral nerves taken together; it is the felted system of intercostal nerves; and is, properly speaking, none other than the posterior double cord of ganglia.
They arefelted with the fibers of the goods and add weight and firmness.
The upper part or dome of the nest is composed of a thick felted covering of moss, having the interior ceiling coated with a thin roof of coarse wax for the purpose of keeping out the wet.
If wool be boiled in water for a considerable time it will be observed that it loses much of its beautiful lustre, feels harsher to the touch, and also becomes felted and matted together.
The petals are mostly thick and broad and have obtuse tips that are sometimes notched, while the ovary has white felted areolas covered with short needlelike spines for protection.
The fruit is spiny, and grows from densely felted masses which remain as scars on the stems for years.
Between the banks a chalk road climbed: an aspiring road, felted in the trodden parts with dust but cross-veined with flinty gutters through which rain poured, like London milk, in stormy weather.
It is composed of twigs and rootlets closely interwoven, and boasts an inner quilt of felted cow-hair nearly half an inch in thickness.
The pendant pouch is composed chiefly of moss made fast by vegetable fibres and cob-webs, and snugly felted with vegetable downs.
On the other hand, one Robin's nest which I found in the open sage had no mud in its construction and was altogether composed offelted vegetable materials.
Steam jackets should be lagged or felted to prevent condensation.
Their nests are placed in upright forks of any kind of trees or bushes; they are made of plant fibres and grasses closely felted together.
Saddled on limbs of trees at low elevations from the ground; composed of small twigs and vegetable fibres closely felted together and often adorned on the outside with lichens similar to the nests of the Wood Pewee.
The nests are very compactly made of fibres and grasses, felted together, and lined with hair.
Felt and felted articles being already in use, in many trades in addition to that of hat-making, necessitates a general and indeed a very full and lucid description of the materials of which they are made.
He labors hard, ever changing the position of the hat under his hands, so as to make it an evenly felted and perfect piece of work, which these oft-repeated motions ultimately accomplish.
France made his triumphant entry into Rouen in 1440, he wore a felted hat.
These felted bodies or shells, as they are called, when dry are steamed generally over the hatter's hot iron, and pulled when warm and soft over the finishing block.
If not a fabulous story, that compound knot the illustrious Gordius is supposed to have cunningly felted previous to hanging it up in the temple.
However all this may be, still the invention of felted fabrics for the use of man may have been, as some assert, very ancient and of quite uncertain origin.
These balls are all found to be as perfectly felted as the natural bend of the several hairs composing them would allow, the felting having been accomplished by the motions of the intestines of the animals.
They are now ready to be wetted, shrunk, and felted in the usual manner by the regular hatter.
We will here describe the making of felted gaiters and shoes, which is similar to the art of hatting.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "felted" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
