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Feeler

noun

One of a pair of mobile appendages on the head of e.g. insects and crustaceans; typically sensitive to touch and taste. Synonym: antenna.

A tentative suggestion designed to elicit the reactions of others. Synonyms: advance, approach, overture.

Sensitivity similar to that of a receptor organ. Synonym: antenna.

Slender tactile process on the jaws of a fish. Synonym: barbel.

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"Feeler" Quotes from Famous Books

... both as a thinker and as a feeler, and you deserved more admiration than I gave. I was too full of narrow dogmas at that time ...

— Jude the Obscure • Thomas Hardy

... negotiations in detail with us. It was a stiff sum, I must say—an extremely stiff sum; but no doubt he was charging us a fancy price for a fancy castle. "He will come down in time," Charles said. "The sum first named in all these transactions is invariably a feeler. They know I'm a millionaire; and people always imagine millionaires are positively ...

— An African Millionaire - Episodes in the Life of the Illustrious Colonel Clay • Grant Allen

... feelers and grasped him round the body. He felt himself dragged helplessly towards the capacious maw where he had already seen so many creatures conveyed. "Oh, master, master! help, help!" he shouted at the top of his voice, though a feeler getting round his neck almost stopped ...

— The Seven Champions of Christendom • W. H. G. Kingston

Words linked to "Feeler" : sensitivity, overture, proffer, advance, proposition, feel, approach, tentacle, sensitiveness, suggestion