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n. sing. & pl. [ OE. bely, below, belly, bellows, AS. bælg, bælig, bag, bellows, belly. Bellows is prop. a pl. and the orig. sense is bag. See Belly. ] An instrument, utensil, or machine, which, by alternate expansion and contraction, or by rise and fall of the top, draws in air through a valve and expels it through a tube for various purposes, as blowing fires, ventilating mines, or filling the pipes of an organ with wind. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bellows camera, in photography, a form of camera, which can be drawn out like an accordion or bellows. --
Hydrostatic bellows. See Hydrostatic. --
A pair of bellows, the ordinary household instrument for blowing fires, consisting of two nearly heart-shaped boards with handles, connected by leather, and having a valve and tube. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Zool.) A European fish (Centriscus scolopax), distinguished by a long tubular snout, like the pipe of a bellows; -- called also trumpet fish, and snipe fish. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Blowze. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ See Fellowship, v. t. ] To exclude from fellowship; to refuse intercourse with, as an associate. [ 1913 Webster ]

An attempt to disfellowship an evil, but to fellowship the evildoer. Freewill Bapt. Quart. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Fellow + -ship. ] 1. The state or relation of being or associate. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Companionship of persons on equal and friendly terms; frequent and familiar intercourse. [ 1913 Webster ]

In a great town, friends are scattered, so that there is not that fellowship which is in less neighborhods. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

Men are made for society and mutual fellowship. Calamy. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A state of being together; companionship; partnership; association; hence, confederation; joint interest. [ 1913 Webster ]

The great contention of the sea and skies
Parted our fellowship. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fellowship in pain divides not smart. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fellowship in woe doth woe assuage. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

The goodliest fellowship of famous knights,
Whereof this world holds record. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Those associated with one, as in a family, or a society; a company. [ 1913 Webster ]

The sorrow of Noah with his fellowship. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

With that a joyous fellowship issued
Of minstrels. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Eng. & Amer. Universities) A foundation for the maintenance, on certain conditions, of a scholar called a fellow, who usually resides at the university. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Arith.) The rule for dividing profit and loss among partners; -- called also partnership, company, and distributive proportion. [ 1913 Webster ]

Good fellowship, companionableness; the spirit and disposition befitting comrades. [ 1913 Webster ] There's neither honesty, manhood, nor good fellowship in thee. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Fellowshiped p. pr. & vb. n.. Fellowshiping. ] (Eccl.) To acknowledge as of good standing, or in communion according to standards of faith and practice; to admit to Christian fellowship. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. sing.; pl. Gallowses it>or Gallows. [ OE. galwes, pl., AS. galga, gealga, gallows, cross; akin to D. galg gallows, OS. & OHG. galgo, G. galgen, Icel. gālgi, Sw. & Dan. galge, Goth. galga a cross. Etymologically and historically considered, gallows is a noun in the plural number, but it is used as a singular, and hence is preceded by a; as, a gallows. ] 1. A frame from which is suspended the rope with which criminals are executed by hanging, usually consisting of two upright posts and a crossbeam on the top; also, a like frame for suspending anything. [ 1913 Webster ]

So they hanged Haman on the gallows. Esther vii. 10. [ 1913 Webster ]

If I hang, I'll make a fat pair of gallows. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

O, there were desolation of gaolers and gallowses! Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A wretch who deserves the gallows. [ R. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Print.) The rest for the tympan when raised. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. pl. A pair of suspenders or braces. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Gallows bird, a person who deserves the gallows. [ Colloq. ] --
Gallows bitts (Naut.), one of two or more frames amidships on deck for supporting spare spars; -- called also gallows, gallows top, gallows frame, etc. --
Gallows frame. (a) The frame supporting the beam of an engine. (b) (Naut.) Gallows bitts. --
Gallows tree, or
Gallow tree, the gallows. [ 1913 Webster ]

At length him nailéd on a gallow tree. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. same as gallows.
Syn. -- gallows, gibbet, gallows tree, gallow tree. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. Agreeable companionship; companionableness. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ OE. malwe, AS. mealwe, fr. L. malva, akin to Gr. mala`chh; cf. mala`ssein to soften, malako`s soft. Named either from its softening or relaxing properties, or from its soft downy leaves. Cf. Mauve, Malachite. ] (Bot.) A genus of plants (Malva) having mucilaginous qualities. See Malvaceous. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The flowers of the common mallow (Malva sylvestris) are used in medicine. The dwarf mallow (Malva rotundifolia) is a common weed, and its flattened, dick-shaped fruits are called cheeses by children. Tree mallow (Malva Mauritiana and Lavatera arborea), musk mallow (Malva moschata), rose mallow or hollyhock, and curled mallow (Malva crispa), are less commonly seen. [ 1913 Webster ]

Indian mallow. See Abutilon. --
Jew's mallow, a plant (Corchorus olitorius) used as a pot herb by the Jews of Egypt and Syria. --
Marsh mallow. See under Marsh. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. The share of a plow, or that part which cuts the slice of earth or sod at the bottom of the furrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

Plowshare bone (Anat.), the pygostyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who has narrowly escaped the gallows for his crimes. [ Colloq. ] Dickens. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Med.) Milk sickness. [ 1913 Webster ]

Same as Tromp. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Far.) A disease of the bile in horses, cattle, and sheep, causing yellowness of the eyes; jaundice. [ 1913 Webster ]

His horse . . . sped with spavins, rayed with the yellows. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) A disease of plants, esp. of peach trees, in which the leaves turn to a yellowish color; jeterus. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Zool.) A group of butterflies in which the predominating color is yellow. It includes the common small yellow butterflies. Called also redhorns, and sulphurs. See Sulphur. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) A kind of pepper grass (Lepidium campestre). [ 1913 Webster ]