Dictionary: FELL'NESS – FEL'LOW-SHIP-ING

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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.

FEL-LOW-HELP'ER, n.

A coadjutor; one who concurs or aids in the same business. 3 John 8.

FEL-LOW-LA'BOR-ER, n.

One who labors in the same business or design.

FEL'LOW-LIKE, a.

Like a companion; companionable; on equal terms. Carew.

FEL-LOW-MAID-EN, n.

A maiden who is an associate.

FEL-LOW-MEM'BER, n.

A member of the same body.

FELLOW-MIN'IS-TER, n.

One who officiates in the same ministry or calling. Shak.

FEL-LOW-PEER, n.

One who has the like privileges of nobility. Shak.

FEL-LOW-PRIS'ON-ER, n.

One imprisoned in the same place. Rom. xvi.

FEL-LOW-RAKE, n.

An associate in vice and profligacy. Armstrong.

FEL-LOW-SCHOL'AR, n.

An associate in studies. Shak.

FEL-LOW-SERV'ANT, n.

One who has the same master. Milton.

FEL'LOW-SHIP, n.

  1. Companionship; society; consort; mutual association of persons on equal and friendly terms; familiar intercourse. Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness. Eph. v. Men are made for society and mutual fellowship. Calamy.
  2. Association; confederacy; combination. Most of the other Christian princes were drawn into the fellowship of that war. [Unusual.] Knolles.
  3. Partnership; joint interest; as, fellowship in pain. Milton.
  4. Company; a state of being together. The great contention of the sea and skies Parted our fellowship. Shak.
  5. Frequency of intercourse. In a great town friends are scattered, so that there is not that fellowship which is in less neighborhoods. Bacon.
  6. Fitness and fondness for festive entertainments; with good prefixed. He had by his good fellowship – made himself popular with all the officers of the army. Clarendon.
  7. Communion; intimate familiarity. 1 John i.
  8. In arithmetic, the rule of proportions, by which the accounts of partners in business are adjusted, so that each partner may have a share of gain or sustain a share of loss, in proportion to his part of the stock.
  9. An establishment in colleges, for the maintenance of a fellow.

FEL'LOW-SHIP, v.t.

To associate with as a fellow, or member of the same church, or of the same order or communion, or of the like faith.

FEL'LOW-SHIP-ED, pp.

Associated, as before mentioned.

FEL'LOW-SHIP-ING, ppr.

Having communion with, &c.