Emily Dickinson Lexicon
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.]
- A companion; an associate. In youth I had twelve fellows, like myself. Ascham Each on his fellow for assistance calls. Dryden
- 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.
- An equal. Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith Jehovah of hosts. Zech. xlii.
- 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.
- One equal or like another. Of an artist we say, this man has not his fellow, that is, one of like skill.
- 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
- A member of a college that shares its revenues; or a member of any incorporated society. Johnson.
- A member of a corporation; a trustee. United States.
FEL'LOW, v.t.
- To suit with; to pair with; to match. [Little used.]
- In composition, fellow denotes community of nature, station or employment.
A citizen of the same state or nation. Eph. ii
- One who has the same right of common.
- In Cambridge, England, one who dines with the fellows.
An associate in council. Shak.
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.
- Sympathy; a like feeling.
- 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.
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.
One who officiates in the same ministry or calling. Shak.
FEL-LOW-PEER, n.
One who has the like privileges of nobility. Shak.
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.
- 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.
- Association; confederacy; combination. Most of the other Christian princes were drawn into the fellowship of that war. [Unusual.] Knolles.
- Partnership; joint interest; as, fellowship in pain. Milton.
- Company; a state of being together. The great contention of the sea and skies Parted our fellowship. Shak.
- Frequency of intercourse. In a great town friends are scattered, so that there is not that fellowship which is in less neighborhoods. Bacon.
- 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.
- Communion; intimate familiarity. 1 John i.
- 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.
- 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.