fellow 
And than they wente to sitte down all v to-geder as goodc 
felowes and trewe. Merlin. (E. E. T. S.), ii. 318. 
It was well knowen that Syr Roger had belie a good 
feloe in his yougth. Ascham, The Scholemaster, p. 62. 
Third Shrp. But hark you, 
We must not call him emperor. 
First Count. That's all one ; 
He is the king of good fellows ; that's no treason. 
Fletcher (and another ?), Prophetess, v. 2. 
6. () A person in general; an individual: 
generally used in friendly familiarity of a -man, 
and sometimes humorously of a woman. 
Alas, poor Yorick ! I knew him, Horatio ; a fellow of 
infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. Shak., Hamlet, v. 1. 
Though mine arm should conquer twenty worlds, 
There's a lean fellow beats all conquerors. 
Dekker, Old Fortunatus. 
Nay, he [Mr. Swiveller] sometimes rewarded her [Miss 
Brass] with a hearty slap on the back, and protested that 
she was a devilish goodfellmv. 
Dickens, Old Curiosity Shop, xxxvi. 
(ft) A man; a boy; one, in the sense of 'a per- 
son': in vulgar parlance, commonly applied 
by the speaker to himself : as, give a fellow a 
chance; don't be hard on a, fellow. 
Ef you take a sword an' dror it, 
An' go stick a fe Her thru. 
Lowell, Biglow Papers. 
7. A person of trivial or disreputable charac- 
ter; a man of no esteem: said in contempt. 
Worth makes the Man, the want of it the fellow. 
Pope, Essay on Man, iv. 203. 
Did Sir Aylmer know 
That great pock-pitten fellow had been caught? 
Tennyson, Aylmer's Field. 
8. In England, a graduate member of a college 
who shares its revenues. See fellowship, 5 (a). 
The transition from the scholar to the fellow is here [in 
the King's College statutes] first clearly defined. It is not 
until after a three years' probation, during which time it 
has been ascertained whether the scholar be ingenio, capa- 
citate sensus, moribus, conditionibus, et scientia, dignus, 
habills, et idoneus for further study, that the provost and 
the fellows are empowered to elect him one of their num- 
ber. Mullinger, Cambridge from the Earliest Times, p. 309. 
9. A full member of an incorporated literary 
or scientific society. 
This ill-favoured fraternity consists of a president and 
twelve fellows. Steele, Spectator, No. 17. 
10. In the United States: (a) One of the trus- 
tees or a member of the corporation of some 
colleges. (6) The name sometimes given to 
the holder of a fellowship. [Used in composition, 
fellow denotes community in nature, station, interest, or 
employment, or mutual association on equal or friendly 
terms : a8,/rifow-boarder,/eHoMi-clerk,/rffow-guest,/Kow- 
passenger, /Mow-pilgrim, /eMow-prisoner, /e((ow-servant, 
fellow-sinner, fellow-student, fellow-sufferer, fellow- towns- 
man, /eHow-traveler, /eitow-worker. For other examples, 
see below.]=Syn. 1. Friend, Companion, etc. See asso- 
2175 
Yet for us, surely, fellow-countrymen have an especial 
interest. Edinburgh Rev., CLXVI. 446. 
fellow-craft (fel'o-kraft), n. A freemason of 
the second rank; one above an entered appren- 
tice and below a master-mason. Simmonds. 
fellow-creature (fel-6-kre'tur), n. A produc- 
tion of the same Creator; a sharer of the same 
animate existence : applied especially to man- 
kind, but also extended to all animate exis- 
tences. Also fellow-mortal. 
Not a blessing reaches any one of us but by ordinances 
which provide for all fellow-creatures. 
Channing, Perfect Life, p. 68. 
We love him, praise him, just for this : 
In every form and feature, 
Through wealth and want, through woe and bliss, 
He saw his fellow-creature ! 
0. W. Holmes, Burns Centennial. 
fellowesst (fel'o-es), n. [< fellow + -ess.] A 
female fellow. Compare fellow, 6. 
Who can have patience with such fellows and/eKowesses > 
Richardson, Clarissa Harlowe, III. 117. 
Your bachelor uncles and maiden aunts are the most 
tantalizing fellows and fellowesses in the creation. 
Miss Burney, Camilla, ix. 5. 
fellow-feel (fel-6-fel'), v. t. [Developed from 
fellow-feeling.] To have a like feeling with; 
feel sympathy with ; have fellowship in suffer- 
ing with. [Rare.] 
We should count her a very tender mother which should 
bear the pain twice and fellow-feel the infant's strivings 
and wrestlings the second time, rather than want the child. 
D. Rogers, Naaman, p. 339. 
fellow-feeler (fel-6-fe'ler), . One who has a 
fellow-feeling for another. [Rare.] 
Am I not your fellow-feeler, as we may say, in all our 
miseries ? Beau, and Fl. , Knight of Burning Pestle, Hi. 6. 
fellow-feeling (fel-6-fe'ling), . A kindred 
feeling; feeling or suffering shared with an- 
other ; joint interest ; sympathy. 
My heart is wrung with pity and fellow-feeling, when I 
reflect what miseries must have been their lot. 
Sterne, Sentimental Journey, p. 39. 
A fellow-feeling makes one wondrous kind. 
Garrick, Prol. on Quitting the Stage, 1776. 
Even your milk-woman and your nursery-maid have a 
fellow-feeling. Arbuthnot, John Bull. 
fellow-generator (fel-5-jen'e-ra-tor), . In 
math., a generator of the same'polyhedron from 
the same pyramid. Kirkman. 
fellow-heir (fel-o-ar'), n. A joint heir or co- 
heir. 
That the Gentiles should be fellowheirs, and of the same 
body. Eph. iii. 6. 
fellow-helper (fel-6-hel'per), re. A coadjutor; 
a companion in labor or effort. 
We therefore ought to receive such, that we might be 
fellowhelpers to the truth. 3 John 8. 
fellow (fel'6), 0. t. [< ME. *felagen (spelled fellowless (fel'o-les), a. [< fellow + -less.'] 
Without a fellow or equal; peerless; match- 
velageri), make one's fellow, (.felage, felawe, fel- 
low.] If. To make one's fellow; companion 
with. 2. To suit with; pair with; match. 
Affection, . . . 
With what's unreal thou eoactive art, 
AaAfellow'st nothing. Shak., W. T., 1. 2. 
Which fellows him rather with Milton. 
The Century, XXVII. 820. 
fellow-being (fel-6-be'ing), . A fellow-crea- 
ture ; especially, any member of the human race 
as compared or contrasted with any other. 
We rear partition walls of distinction between ourselves 
and fellow-beings. Channing, Perfect Life, p. 78. 
A personal and individual acquisition, slow to come to 
us, and by no habitual and direct sympathy connecting 
us with our fellow-beings. 
Fortnightly Rev., N. S., XLII. 720. 
fellow-citizen (fel-6-sit'i-zn), . One who 
shares with another the rights of citizenship 
under the same government. 
Welcome, fellow-citizens, 
Hollow hearts and empty heads ! 
Tennyson, Vision of Sin. 
fellow-commoner (fel-6-kom'on-er), n. 1. 
One who has the same right of common. 2. 
In Cambridge University, England, one who 
dines with the fellows. 
fellow-countryman (fel-o-kun'tri-man), n. 
One belonging to the same country; a compa- 
triot. 
This has been censured as an American pleonasm, like 
play-actor, inasmuch as good English usage has conferred 
this meaning on the word countryman alone. Still, the 
want of a more definite expression has been felt in Eng- 
land as well as in this country ; and the term fellow- 
countryman, as distinguished from countryman, rustic, as 
the French compatriote and German lamlsmann are distin- 
guished from paysan and landmann, has long been used 
in America, and in England has been adopted and sanc- 
tioned by such authorities as Southey and Lord Brougham. 
Barttett. 
less. 
Whose well-built walls are rare and fellowless. 
Chapman, Iliad, ii. 434. 
fellow-like (fel'6-llk), a. [< fellow + like.] 
Like a comrade ; companionable ; on equal 
terms. 
All which good parts he graceth with a good fellowlike, 
kind, and respectful carriage. 
R. Carew, Survey of Cornwall. 
fellowly (fel'o-li), a. [< ME. felawlich, feleyly, 
feolauliehe, etc. ; < fellow + -ly 1 .] Fellow-like. 
[Rare.] 
Sytt vp-ryght And honestly, 
Ete & drinke, & be feleyly. 
Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 21. 
We must not be too familiar, too fellowly, too homely 
with God, here at home, in his house, nor loath to uncover 
our head, or bow our knee at his name. 
Donne, Sermons, v. 
fellow-man (fel-6-man'), n. A fellow-creature 
of the human race; humanity in general with 
reference to any individual member of it. 
fellow-mortal (fel-6-mdr'tal), TO. Same as 
fellow-creature. 
fellowredt, [ME. felawrede, felawrede, etc. ; 
(fellow + -red.] 1. Fellowship; company. 
But thou dedxst no foly dede, 
That ys fleshly felaurede. 
MS. Harl., 1701, f. 11. (Halliwell.) 
2. A company. 
BIythe was the Crystene felawrede 
Off kyng Richard and off hys dede. 
Richard Coer de Lion, 1. 3137. 
fellowship (fel'o-ship), re. [Early mod. E. fel- 
owship, etc., < ME. felowship, felawship, felag- 
ship, feliship, etc. (= Icel. felagsskapr = Dan. 
frellessTcab, fellowship); (.fellow + -ship.] 1. 
The condition or relation of being a fellow or 
associate; mutual association of persons on 
fellowship 
equal and friendly terms; communion: as, the 
fi'llomhip of the saints; church fellowship. 
Fi-ire frende, come ye and youre felowes with me, and 
ye shull be in feliship of these worth! men. 
Merlin (E. E. T. S.), ii. 218. 
Here is the Alpha and Omega of all our thought ami 
action, the basis of our church-fellowtihip, the authority 
for our self-management, the necessity for independence 
of the civil power, and the qualification for service. 
Contemporary Rev., LIII. 606. 
2. The state or condition of sharing in com- 
mon; intimate association; joint interest; part- 
nership : as, fellowship in loss. 
Than seide Petyr to seynt Ion, 
" Whi art thou so sory a mon? 
Whi wepistou & what is thee ? 
Vorfelaschip telle thou me." 
King Horn (E. E. T. S.), p. 84. 
3. A body of fellows or companions ; an asso- 
ciation of persons having the same tastes, oc- 
cupations, or interests ; a band ; a company ; 
a guild : as, the fellowship of civil engineers. 
The sorwe of Noe with his felaweship, 
Er that he myghte bringe his wyf to ship. 
Chaucer, Miller's Tale, 1. 353. 
Also hyt ys ordened, that alle the ffeleshyppe of the 
Bachelerys schall hollen ther ffeste at Synte John-ys day 
in harwaste. English Gilds (E. E. T. S.), p. 313. 
4. In arith., the rule of proportions by which 
the accounts of partners in business are ad- 
justed, so that each partner may have a share 
of gain, or sustain a share of loss, in proportion 
to his part of the stock. It proceeds upon the prin- 
ciple established in the doctrine of proportion, that the 
sum of all the antecedents of any number of equal ratios 
is to the sum of all the consequents as any one of the an- 
tecedents is to its consequent. 
5. (a) A station of privilege and emolument 
in English colleges which entitles the holder 
(called a fellow) to a share in their revenues. 
In Oxford and Cambridge the fellowships were either 
constituted by the original founders of the colleges to 
which they belong, or they have been since endowed. In 
almost all cases their holders must have taken at least 
the first degree of bachelor of arts, or of students in the 
civil law. Fellowships vary in value from about 30 to 
260 a year and upward, and they all confer upon their 
holders the right to apartments in the college, and cer- 
tain privileges as to commons or meals. Though many 
fellowships are tenable for life, in general they are for- 
feited upon attainment by the holder of a certain position 
in the church or at the bar, or upon his marriage. In this 
last case, however, a fellow may retain his fellowship by a 
special vote of the college. Except in the single case of 
Downing College, Oxford, where graduates of Oxford and 
Cambridge are eligible, fellowships are confined to gradu- 
ates of the university to which they belong, (ft) In col- 
leges and universities of the United States, a 
scholarship or sum of money granted for one 
or more years to a graduate student to enable 
him to pursue his studies either at that college 
or university or abroad. 
The friends of university training can do nothing that 
would forward it more than the founding of post-graduate 
fellowships. Lowell, Harvard Anniversary. 
Good fellowship, companionableness ; fondness and fit- 
ness for social intercourse ; a festive or sociable disposi- 
tion. 
He had by his excessive good fellowship . . . made him- 
self popular with all the officers of the army. 
Clarendon, Great Rebellion. 
Right hand of fellowship, the right hand given in 
installation and ordination services by a minister to the 
minister about to be installed or ordained, in token of the 
fellowship of the churches, as practised by some Protes- 
tant denominations. It has a very early origin, being prob- 
ably derived in the primitive church (Gal. ii. 9) from a 
similar custom among the Persians and Parthians (Jew. 
Antiq., 18, 9, 3), who practised it in treaties, as consti- 
tuting an inviolable pledge of fidelity. 
When James, Cephas, and John . . . perceived the grace 
that was given unto me, they gave to me and Barnabas 
the right hands of fellowship. Gal. ii. 9. 
The elder desired of the churches that, if they did ap- 
prove them to be a church, they would give them the right 
hand of fellowship. Winthrop, Hist. New England, I. 21. 
fellowship (fel'o-ship), v.; pret. and pp. fellow- 
shipped, ppr.fellowshipping. [< ME.felowshipen, 
felawshipen, etc. (pret. -shipte) (tr. L. sociari); 
< fellowship, .] I. trans. To have fellowship 
with ; admit to fellowship ; associate with as a 
fellow or member of the same body ; specifi- 
cally, to unite with in doctrine and discipline 
as members of the same sect or church. 
It [thought] . . . joyneth his weyes with the sonne 
Phebus and felawshipith the wey of the olde colde Sa- 
turnis. Chaucer, Boethius, iv. meter 1. 
Alle the Israleitis . . . felawshipten hem Selven with 
hem in the batayl. Wyclif, 1 Ki. xiv. 22. 
We therefore fellowship him in taking a course of pre- 
paratory studies for the Christian ministry. 
Board of Madison University, Jan. 1, 1840. 
II. intrans. To be joined in fellowship. 
For that thei felishiped first to-geder, and woued well 
to-geder longe tyme after of grete love alle the dayes of 
her lyf. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), ii. 137. 
