Emily Dickinson Lexicon

FE-LIC'I-TOUS, a.

Very happy; prosperous; delightful. Dict

FE-LIC'I-TOUS-LY, adv.

Happily. Dict.

FE-LIC'I-TOUS-NESS, n.

State of being very happy.

FE-LIC'I-TY, n. [L. felicitas, from felix, happy.]

1. Happiness, or rather great happiness; blessedness; blissfulness; appropriately, the joys of heaven.
2. Prosperity; blessing; enjoyment of good. The felicities of her wonderful reign may be complete. Atterbury. Females – who confer on life its finest felicities. Rawle.

FE'LINE, a. [L. felinus, from felis, a cat. Qu. fell, fierce.]

Pertaining to cats, or to their species; like a cat; noting the cat kind or the genus Felis. We say, the feline race; feline rapacity.

FELL, a. [Sax. fell; D. fel.]

1. Cruel; barbarous; inhuman. It seemed fury, discord, madness fell. Fairfax.
2. Fierce; savage; ravenous; bloody. More fell than tigers on the Libyan plain. Pope.

FELL, n.¹ [Sax. fell; G. fell; D. vel; L. pellis; Fr. peau; probably from peeling.]

A skin or hide of a beast; used chiefly in composition, as wool-fell.

FELL, n.² [G. fels.]

A barren or stony hill. [Local.] Gray.

FELL, v. [pret. of Fall.]

FELL, v.t. [D. vellen; G. fällen; Sw. fälla; Dem. fælder; probably from the root of fall.]

To cause to fall; to prostrate; to bring to the ground, either by cutting, as to fell trees, or by striking, as, to fell an ox.

FELL'ED, pp.

Knocked or cut down.

FELL'ER, n.

One who hews or knocks down. Is. xiv.

FEL-LIF'LU-OUS, a. [L. fel, gall, and fluo, to flow.]

Flowing with gall. Dict.

FELL'ING, ppr.

Cutting or beating to the ground.

FELL'MONG-ER, n. [fell and monger.]

A dealer in hides

FELL'NESS, n. [See Fell, cruel.]

Cruelty; fierce barbarity; rage. Spenser

FELL'OE, n. [See FELLY.]

FEL'LOW, n. [Sax. felaw; Scot. falow, from follow. In an old author, fellowship is written folowship.]

1. A companion; an associate. In youth I had twelve fellows, like myself. Ascham Each on his fellow for assistance calls. Dryden
2. One of the same kind. A shepherd had one favorite dog; he fed him with his own hand, and took more care of him than of his fellows. L'Estrange.
3. An equal. Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith Jehovah of hosts. Zech. xlii.
4. One of a pair, or of two things used together and suited to each other. Of a pair of gloves, we call one the fellow of the other.
5. One equal or like another. Of an artist we say, this man has not his fellow, that is, one of like skill.
6. An appellation of contempt; a man without good breeding or worth; an ignoble man; as, a mean fellow. Worth makes the man, and wait of it the fellow. Pope
7. A member of a college that shares its revenues; or a member of any incorporated society. Johnson.
8. A member of a corporation; a trustee. United States.

FEL'LOW, v.t.

1. To suit with; to pair with; to match. [Little used.]
2. In composition, fellow denotes community of nature, station or employment.

FEL-LOW-CIT'I-ZEN, n.

A citizen of the same state or nation. Eph. ii

FEL-LOW-COM'MON-ER, n.

1. One who has the same right of common.
2. In Cambridge, England, one who dines with the fellows.

FEL-LOW-COUN'CIL-OR, n.

An associate in council. Shak.

FEL-LOW-CREAT-URE, n.

One of the same race or kind. Thus men are all called fellow-creatures. Watts uses the word for one made by the same creator. “Reason by which we are raised above our fellow-creatures, the brutes.” But the word is not now used in this sense.

FEL-LOW-FEEL-ING, n.

1. Sympathy; a like feeling.
2. Joint interest. [Not in use.]

FEL-LOW-HEIR, n.

A co-heir, or joint-heir; one entitled to a share of the same inheritance. That the Gentiles should be fellow-heirs. Eph. iii.