Emily Dickinson Lexicon

fellow (-s), n. [ON felage, property, money, society.] (webplay: match, sane, suited, worth).

1. Peer; associate; companion; comrade of equal social status; (see Exodus 2:13).
2. Scientist; member of a learned society; seeker of higher knowledge; [word play] one who belongs to the Fellows of the Royal Society of London in Great Britain.
3. Creature; being; young man; male entity; (see Genesis 19:9).