Emily Dickinson Lexicon

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.