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Definition of Feelers
1. feeler [n] - See also: feeler
Lexicographical Neighbors of Feelers
Literary usage of Feelers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"... are a family of delicate, but larger, moths with very long feelers (fig. ....
and in correlation with this condition the feelers of the male arc ..."
2. Curiosities of Natural History by Francis Trevelyan Buckland (1883)
"They doubtless act as feelers to these fish, who live in broken rocks, ...
With a sharp knife he very carefully cut out the gills and the feelers, ..."
3. First Book in Geology by Nathaniel Southgate Shaler (1898)
"These limbs are constructed, with a few changes, out of the soft feelers or
suckers which, in the lower forms of cephalopods, the pearly nautilus and its ..."
4. The Cambridge Book of Poetry and Song: Selected from English and American by Charlotte Fiske Bates (1910)
"SPIRITUAL feelers. THE soul hath its feelers, cobwebs floating on the wind, That
catch events in their approach with sure and apt presentiment, ..."
5. The London Encyclopaedia, Or, Universal Dictionary of Science, Art by Thomas Tegg (1829)
"Mandibles without feelers, and the mouth always composed of several ...
Mandibles without feelers ; the mouth is sometimes in the form of a beak, ..."
6. Dictionary of Geology and Mineralogy: Comprising Such Terms in Botany by William Humble (1843)
"... or maxillary feelers; those placed laterally upon the labium, are designated
the palpi labiales, or labial feelers. ..."
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