the act of perceiving objects by the organ of sight; or it is the sense we have of external objects by means of the eye. See OPTICS.

in the manege. A horse is said to feel when he begins to have white eye brows; that is, when there grows on that part about the breadth of a farthing of white hairs, mixed with those of his natural colour, which is a mark of old age. It is said, that a horse never feels till he is fourteen years old, and always does before he is sixteen years.

at sea, is used in the same sense nearly with heeling: when a ship lies down constantly, or steadily on one side, the seamen say the heels; and they call it feeling when the tumbles violently and suddenly, by reason of the sea forsaking her, as they call it, that is, the weaves leaving her for a time in a bowling sea.