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n. One who lies with another in the same bed; a person who shares one's couch. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One of a pair of horses employed to draw a coach; hence (Fig.), a comrade. Shak. [ 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. [ Cf. L. fel gall, bile, or E. fell, a. ] Gall; anger; melancholy. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Untroubled of vile fear or bitter fell. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ OE. fel, OF. fel cruel, fierce, perfidious; cf. AS. fel (only in comp.) OF. fel, as a noun also accus. felon, is fr. LL. felo, of unknown origin; cf. Arm fall evil, Ir. feal, Arm. falloni treachery, Ir. & Gael. feall to betray; or cf. OHG. fillan to flay, torment, akin to E. fell skin. Cf. Felon. ] 1. Cruel; barbarous; inhuman; fierce; savage; ravenous. [ 1913 Webster ]

While we devise fell tortures for thy faults. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Eager; earnest; intent. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

I am so fell to my business. Pepys. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. fell; akin to D. vel, OHG. fel, G. fell, Icel. fell (in comp.), Goth fill in þrutsfill leprosy, L. pellis skin, Gr. pe`lla. Cf. Film, Peel, Pell, n. ] A skin or hide of a beast with the wool or hair on; a pelt; -- used chiefly in composition, as woolfell. [ 1913 Webster ]

We are still handling our ewes, and their fells, you know, are greasy. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Icel. fell, fjally; akin to Sw. fjäll a ridge or chain of mountains, Dan. fjeld mountain, rock and prob. to G. fels rock, or perh. to feld field, E. field. ] 1. A barren or rocky hill. T. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A wild field; a moor. Dryton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Felled p. pr. & vb. n. Felling. ] [ AS. fellan, a causative verb fr. feallan to fall; akin to D. vellen, G. fällen, Icel. fella, Sw. fälla, Dan. fælde. See Fall, v. i. ] To cause to fall; to prostrate; to bring down or to the ground; to cut down. [ 1913 Webster ]

Stand, or I'll fell thee down. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Mining) The finer portions of ore which go through the meshes, when the ore is sorted by sifting. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Cf. Gael. fill to fold, plait, Sw. fåll a hem. ] To sew or hem; -- said of seams. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Sewing) A form of seam joining two pieces of cloth, the edges being folded together and the stitches taken through both thicknesses. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Weaving) The end of a web, formed by the last thread of the weft. [ 1913 Webster ]

imp. of Fall. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Fit to be felled. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Ar. Fellahin E. Fellahs [ Ar. ] A peasant or cultivator of the soil among the Egyptians, Syrians, etc. W. M. Thomson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a form of sexual activity between two persons in which the penis of one is stimulated by the other's mouth, especially until orgasm is achieved. It is a form of oral sex. Compare cunnilingus. The act is also called by the slang term blow job. [ PJC ]

n. One who, or that which, fells, knocks or cuts down; a machine for felling trees. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An appliance to a sewing machine for felling a seam. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. AS. fealafor, and E. fieldfare. ] (Zool.) The fieldfare. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. fellifuus; fel gall + fluere to flow. ] Flowing with gall. [ R. ] Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. fel, fellis, gall. ] Of, relating to, or derived from, bile or gall; as, fellinic acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A dealer in fells or sheepskins, who separates the wool from the pelts. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Fell cruel. ] The quality or state of being fell or cruel; fierce barbarity. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Felly. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Variant of Felon. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Those two were foes the fellonest on ground. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. felawe, felaghe, Icel. fēlagi, fr. fēlag companionship, prop., a laying together of property; fē property + lag a laying, pl. lög law, akin to liggja to lie. See Fee, and Law, Lie to be low. ] 1. A companion; a comrade; an associate; a partner; a sharer. [ 1913 Webster ]

The fellows of his crime. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

We are fellows still,
Serving alike in sorrow. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

That enormous engine was flanked by two fellows almost of equal magnitude. Gibbon. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Commonly used of men, but sometimes of women. Judges xi. 37. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A man without good breeding or worth; an ignoble or mean man. [ 1913 Webster ]

Worth makes the man, and want of it, the fellow. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. An equal in power, rank, character, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

It is impossible that ever Rome
Should breed thy fellow. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. One of a pair, or of two things used together or suited to each other; a mate; the male. [ 1913 Webster ]

When they be but heifers of one year, . . . they are let go to the fellow and breed. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

This was my glove; here is the fellow of it. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A person; an individual. [ 1913 Webster ]

She seemed to be a good sort of fellow. Dickens. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. In the English universities, a scholar who is appointed to a foundation called a fellowship, which gives a title to certain perquisites and privileges. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. In an American college or university, a member of the corporation which manages its business interests; also, a graduate appointed to a fellowship, who receives the income of the foundation. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. A member of a literary or scientific society; as, a Fellow of the Royal Society. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Fellow is often used in compound words, or adjectively, signifying associate, companion, or sometimes equal. Usually, such compounds or phrases are self-explanatory; as, fellow-citizen, or fellow citizen; fellow-student, or fellow student; fellow-workman, or fellow workman; fellow-mortal, or fellow mortal; fellow-sufferer; bedfellow; playfellow; workfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

Were the great duke himself here, and would lift up
My head to fellow pomp amongst his nobles. Ford. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To suit with; to pair with; to match. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A student at Cambridge University, England, who commons, or dines, at the Fellow's table. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One of the same race or kind; one made by the same Creator. [ 1913 Webster ]

Reason, by which we are raised above our fellow-creatures, the brutes. I. Watts. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To share through sympathy; to participate in. [ R. ] D. Rodgers. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Sympathy; a like feeling. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Joint interest. [ Obs. ] Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Without fellow or equal; peerless. [ 1913 Webster ]

Whose well-built walls are rare and fellowless. Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Like a companion; companionable; on equal terms; sympathetic. [ Obs. ] Udall. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Fellowlike. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 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 ]

adv. In a fell or cruel manner; fiercely; barbarously; savagely. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Fellies [ OE. feli, felwe, felow, AS. felg, felge; akin to D. velg, G. felge, OHG. felga felly (also, a harrow, but prob. a different word), Dan. felge. ] The exterior wooden rim, or a segment of the rim, of a wheel, supported by the spokes. [ Written also felloe. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Break all the spokes and fellies from her wheel. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Agreeable companionship; companionableness. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An intimate companion. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hail-fellow well met. Lyly. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Litho- + L. fel, fellis, gall. ] (Physiol. Chem.) Pertaining to, or designating, a crystalline, organic acid, resembling cholic acid, found in the biliary intestinal concretions (bezoar stones) common in certain species of antelope. [ 1913 Webster ]

A member of a secret order, or fraternity, styled the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, established for mutual aid and social enjoyment. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who occupies the same pew with another. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An intimate associate; a companion. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A companion in amusements or sports; a playmate. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A pewfellow. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

A celebrated fairy; Puck. See Puck. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One bred at the same school; an associate in school. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An underling; a mean, low fellow. [ R. ] Sir P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ 1st pref. un- + fellow. ] To prevent from being a fellow or companion; to separate from one's fellows; to dissever. [ 1913 Webster ]

Death quite unfellows us. Mrs. Browning. [ 1913 Webster ]