Real Dictionary

feel
If you can feel something, you are aware of it because it is touching you.
If you talk about how an experience or event feels, you talk about the emotions and sensations connected with it.
If you talk about how an object feels, you talk about the physical quality that you notice when you touch or hold it. For example, if something feels soft, you notice that it is soft when you touch it.
If you talk about how the weather feels, you describe the weather, especially the temperature or whether or not you think it is going to rain or snow.
link verb: If you feel a particular emotion or physical sensation, you experience it.
verb: If you feel an object, you touch it deliberately with your hand, so that you learn what it is like, for example what shape it is or whether it is rough or smooth.
verb: If you feel something happening, you become aware of it because of the effect it has on your body.
verb: If you feel yourself doing something or being in a particular state, you are aware that something is happening to you which you are unable to control.

feel in American English
to touch or handle in order to become aware of; examine or test by touching or handling
intransitive verb: to have perception by touch or by any nerves of sensation other than those of sight, hearing, taste, and smell
transitive verb: to perceive or examine by touch

feel in British English
verb: to perceive (something) by touching