a, felly ; *, spoke : r, hub. 
fellowship 
Even the old rug, which was given a new place, . . . 
seemed very soon to fellmrship with its new surroundings. 
The Conaregatumalist, July 19, 1883. 
fellow-subject (fel-6-sub'jekt), n. One who 
shares with another the obligations of alle- 
giance to the same sovereign. 
fellow- wheel (fel-6-hwel'), H. One of a pair of 
matched wheels working together. 
His invention comprised a portable steam-engine, 
mounted on a framework, mainly supported by a pair of 
broad fellow-wheels behind. Urt, Diet., IV. 3. 
fellside (fel'sid), n. The side of a fell or rocky 
hill. [Bare.] 
In his cold bed on the fellside. 
Christian Union, July 28, 1887. 
fellwaret (f el' war), n. [ME.; <felfi + ware*.] 
Skins; furs; hide. 
But [he] beggith and borwith of burgeis in tounes 
ffurris of ffoyne and other /elle-ware, 
And not the better of a bene thoug they boru euere. 
Richard the Redelets, iii. 160. 
felly 1 , felloe 1 (f el'i, -6), n. ; pl.felttes,felloes (-iz, 
-oz). [(a) Felly, < Ti/lE.fely, rely, -pl.felien, velion 
(for*i>eKe), later feliis. (o) Felloe (prop, spelled 
*fcllow, like bellow-tt, gallow-s, sallow, willow, 
etc. ), dial, also fellick, felk, also (early mod. E. ) 
felloff (with various development of the orig. 
terminal guttural) ; < ME. felow, felowe, earlier 
felwe, pi. felwes, felues, once feleyghes; < AS. 
felg (nom. rare, dat. felge), usually in fl.felga 
(rarely felgan),fa. L. cantus({orcantltus), usually 
in pi. canti, fellies; = D. 
velg = OHG. felga, MHG. 
velge, G. felge = Dan.feelge 
(<D.?), felly. Ulterior ori- 
gin not clear. A similar 
duplication of form, with a 
differentiation of mean- 
ing, appears in belly, bel- 
lows.'] The circular rim 
of a wheel, into which the 
outer ends of the spokes 
are inserted ; in the plural, the curved pieces of 
wood which, joined together by dowel-pins, 
form the circumference or circular rim of a 
cart- or carriage-wheel, each receiving the end 
of at least one spoke. 
Break all the spokes and fillies from her wheel. 
Shak., Hamlet, ii. 2. 
felly 2 (fel'li), ado. [< ME. felly, felli, fellich, 
fiercely, cruelly, also shrewdly, < fel, fell 4 , + 
-^ 2 .] In a fell manner; cruelly; grimly; 
fiercely; ruthlessly. 
Whan the knyghtes of the rounde table approched the 
bataile the! sprongen in a-monge hem so felly, that thei 
bare down all that thei mette in her comyuge. 
Merlin (E. E. T. S.), ii. 215. 
My mind will not let me rest to think upon, and as it 
were to see, sore storms like to fall motefelli/ than any yet 
we have felt. 
J. Bradford, Letters (Parker Soc., 1853), II. CO. 
A feeble beast doth felly him oppresse. 
Spenser, Sonnets, Ivi. 
felly 3 (fel'i), v. t. A dialectal variant of/allow^. 
felly-auger (fel'i-a"ger), >i. 1. An auger for 
boring the holes for the spokes in a felly. 2. 
A hollow auger used for forming the tenons of 
a wheel-spoke. 
felly-coupling (fel'l-kup^ling), n. A box or 
holder for clasping and holding together the 
ends of the several pieces that form the rim of 
a wheel. 
felly-dresser (fel'i-dres"er), n. A machine for 
finishing the rims of carriage-wheels. 
felly-machine (fel'i-ma-shen"), n. A machine 
in which fellies are bent, bored, dressed, planed, 
rounded, and sawed. 
felly-plate (fel'i-plat), n. A metal plate used 
in joining the pieces of a felly. 
felmongert, . See fellmonger. 
felnesst. n. Seefellness. 
felo (fe 16), n. [ML., a traitor, rebel; in old 
Eng. law any malefactor punishable with death, 
a felon: see felon 1 .'] The Middle Latin form 
of felon 1 . Felo de se [Eng. Law L., lit. a felon (i. e., 
murderer) of himself], in law, one who commits felony 
by suicide, or deliberately destroys his own life, or who, 
in maliciously attempting to kill another, causes his own 
death. 
A man who should content himself with a single con- 
densed enunciation of a perplexed doctrine would he a 
madman and a felo-de-se, as respected his reliance upon 
that doctrine. De Qulncey, Style, i. 
felon 1 (fel'pn), n. and a. [Formerly also fel- 
lon; < ME. felon, feloun, n., a wicked person (ap- 
plied to Satan, Herod, a heathen giant, etc.), a 
traitor; adj. feloun, wicked, malignant ; < OF. 
felon, felun, fellon, a wicked person, a trai- 
tor, rebel, adj. traitorous, treacherous, wicked, 
malignant, F. felon, n. and adj., = Pr. felon, 
2176 
fellon = OSp. fellon = It. fellone, a., wicked, 
cruel, inhuman, ML. fello, felo(n-) , a. traitorous, 
treacherous, n. a traitor, rebel (in Eng. law 
any malefactor punishable with death: see 
felo); prop, a noun, < OF. fel = ft. fel, wicked, 
malignant, treacherous, fell, = It. fello, wicked, 
cruel, perfidious, bad. The word thus appears 
to be connected with E. fell* (in AS. only in 
comp. -fel, -felo, -ftele), both, it seems, ult. of 
Celtic origin : cf . Gael, fealltm, a felon, traitor, 
Bret, falloni, treachery; Gael. Bret, fall = IT. 
feal, evil ; W. and Corn, ffel, wily (cf. E. fell* 
in sense of ' wily, shrewd ') ; the ult. verb being 
Gael, and Ir. feallaim, I betray, deceive, fail, 
cf. Bret, fallaat, impair, render base; orig. 
"sfall- = L. fallere, deceive (> E.fail), = Gr. 
aipaAfatv, cause to fall, etc. : see fell*, fail 1 .] I. 
. If. A wicked person ; a cruel, fierce person ; 
one guilty of heinous crimes. 
Thag [though] the feloun [Lucifer] were so fers for his 
fayre wedez 
And his glorious glem [gleam]. 
Alliterative Poemt (ed. Morris), il. 297. 
Therisa/e/tmnthetheththetongemorekeruindethanne 
rasour. Ayenbite of Inwit (E. E. T. S.), p. 6. 
2. Tii law, a person who has committed a fel- 
ony. The term is not applicable after legal 
punishment has been completed. 
I do defy thy conjurations, 
And apprehend thee for a felon here. 
Shak., R. and J., v. 3. 
No offendours are hanged there but only fellons. 
Coryat, Crudities, I. 10. 
A. felon, whom his country's laws 
Have justly doomed for some atrocious cause. 
Cowper, Hope, 1. 712. 
3f. Felony. Arnold's Chron., p. 34. =Syn. 2. Crim- 
inal, convict, malefactor, culprit, outlaw. 
II. a. 1. Wicked; malignant; malicious; 
treacherous ; proceeding from a depravedheart. 
Furst my lord was broujt to dede, 
Thorw the/cdm iewes rede, 
And now my ladi wil me fro. 
Swete lord, now me is woe. 
King Horn (E. E. T. S.), p. 83. 
There was mortall and felon bataile and grete occision 
on botne parties. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), ii. 275. 
Vain shows of love to vail his felon hate. Pope. 
2. Obtained by felony or crime; of goods, 
stolen. 
Thus he that conquer'd men, and beast most cruell 
(Whose greedy pawes with/f<m goods were found), 
Answer'd Goliah's challenge in a duell. 
Ftdler, David's Heinous Sin, st. 19. 
3f. Wretched; forlorn. 
With felon look and face dispitouse 
Tho sodeinly doun from his hors he sterte. 
Chaucer, Troilus, v. 199. 
felon 2 (fel' on), n. [Formerly also fellon ; E. 
dial, fellon, fellom; < ME. fefouii, felon, felun, 
f clone, glossed by L. carbuneulm, antrax (for 
anthrax), appar. a 'malignant' sore, < feloun, 
malignant, wicked: see felon 1 . Cf. ME. gloss. 
' ' hec antrax, a felun bleyn," where felun, print- 
ed without a comma, may be an adj. (Wright's 
A. S. and O. E. Vocab., ed. Wiilcker, p. 791, col. 
12).] In nied.: (a) An acute and painful in- 
flammation of the deeper tissues of the finger 
or toe, especially of the distal phalanx, general- 
ly seated near the nail ; paronychia; whitlow. 
Felow, soore, antrax, carbunculus. 
Prompt. Par p., p. 154. 
It is neither a rich patrician's shooe that cureth the 
gout in the feet, nor a costly and precious ring that heal- 
eth the whitlaw or felon in the fingers. 
Holland, tr. of Plutarch, p. 120. 
(b) A sort of inflammation in quadrupeds, simi- 
lar to whitlow in man. 
feloness (fel'on-es), n. [< felon 1 + -ess.] A 
woman who has committed felony. [Rare.] 
And what was the pitch of his mother's yellowness ? 
How she turned as a shark to snap the spare-rib 
Clean off, sailors say, from a pearl-diving Carib, 
When she heard what she called the flight of thefeloness. 
Browning, Flight of the Duchess. 
felonious (fe-16'ni-us), a. [< felony (ML. felo- 
nia) + -ous. The older form is feionous, q. v.] 
1. Malignant; malicious; indicating or pro- 
ceeding from a depraved heart or an evil pur- 
pose; villainous; traitorous; perfidious: as, a 
felonious deed. 
O thievish Night, 
Why shouldst thou, but for some/(om'otM end, 
In thy dark lantern thus close up the stars? 
Milton, Comus, 1. 196. 
2. In law, done with the deliberate purpose of 
committing a felony. Felonious homicide. See 
homicide?. =Syn. Illegal, Iniquitous, etc. See criminal. 
feloniously (fe-16'ni-us-li), adv. In a felonious 
manner; wickedly; with deliberate intent to 
commit a wrongful act, the act being in law 
felstone 
such as constitutes a crime of the class termed 
felonies. Indictments for capital offenses must 
state the act to have been done feloniously. 
And after that he overthrewe tweyne with the trnnc-limi 
so felenoyuttlji that thei wiste not whethir it was ny^ht 01- 
day. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. 459. 
feloniousness (fe-16'ni-us-nes), . The char- 
acter of being felonious. 
felonlyt (fel'ou-li), adv. [ME., also felonliche; 
< felon 1 , a., +' -fy 2 .] Wickedly; feloniously. 
Yf he be fer ther-fro ful ofte hath he drede 
That fals folke fecche &w&y felonliche hus godes. 
Piers Plowman (C), xiii. 238. 
felonoust (fel'qn-us), a. [Formerly &\aofellon- 
ous; < ME. feionous, < OF. felonos, felenos, felo- 
neus, wicked, cruel, < felon, felon: see felon 1 
and -ous.'] Wicked; felonious. 
Thei ben righte/e(onous?and foule,and of cursed kynde. 
Marideville, Travels, p. 65. 
Vfithfellonous despight 
And fell intent. Spenser, F. Q., III. I. 65. 
felonouslyt, adv. [<ME. felonously ; < feionous 
+ -ly%.] Wickedly; traitorously. 
Thei of the rounde table hem ledde felonously in the 
werse maner. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. 490. 
felonry (fel'on-ri), . [<. felon + -ry.] A body 
of felons; a convict population. 
From the period when the new community [Port Phillip] 
became in any degree organized, it seems to have stead- 
ily determined upon two things : to claim self-govern- 
ment, as we have seen, and to shut out the felonry of Great 
Britain and Ireland. Contemporary Rev., LIII. 14. 
felonwood (fel'on-wud), n. Same a&felonwort. 
felonwort (fel'on-wert), n. The bittersweet, 
Solanum Dulcamara : so called from its use as 
a remedy for whitlow. 
felony (fel'on-i), n. ; pi. felonies (-iz). [Former- 
ly filsofellonif; < ME. felony, felonie, < OF./e- 
lonie, fellonie, felenie, felunie, etc., F. felonie, 
treason, wickedness, cruelty, ete.,=Pr.fellonia, 
felnia, feunia = Sp. Pg.felonia = It.fellonia, < 
ML. felonia, treason, treachery (in Eng. law, 
any crime punishable with death), < felo(n-), a 
felon: see felon 1 , .] If. A wicked, foul, or 
treacherous act; wickedness. 
Thei dide it for noon euell ne for no felonye that thei 
wolde yow haue don, but pleide with yow. 
Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. 572. 
In this forest so fer fro peple haste me I-met a-lone, and 
so grete felonye In the is roted, that thow deynest not me 
ones to salue. Merlin (E. E. T. 8.), iii. 690. 
Specifically 2. In told: (a) At common law, a 
crime which occasions the forfeiture of land or 
goods, or both, and for which other punishment 
may be added according to the degree of guilt. 
It thus strictly includes treason, although the 
words are often used as opposed to each other. 
(6) A high crime ; the highest of the principal 
classes into which crimes are divided by stat- 
ute ; a grave crime exceeding the grade of mis- 
demeanor. The present meaning of the word varies in 
England, and, in the United States, in various States, for- 
feiture of land and goods being abolished. Thus, in New 
York and some other States, it includes all crimes punish- 
able with death, or with imprisonment in a state-prison. 
3t. A body of felons Capital felony. See capital 
o/ense, under capital^. Treason Felony Act, an English 
statute of 1848 (11 and 12 Viet., c. 12) extending previous 
laws for the punishment of offenses against the royal fam- 
ily or their dignity to Ireland, and declaring other simi- 
lar offenses to be felonies. 
felsite (fel'sit), n. [F.felsite, < G. fels, rock, or 
fels- in felspar, felstone, + -ite 2 .] A compact, 
very hard rock, almost flinty in texture, made 
up of quartz and orthoclase feldspar intimate- 
ly mixed. It is a rock of eruptive origin, occurring in 
large masses in the older part of the geological series, 
from the Silurian jip to the Jurassic, in the form of bosses 
and dikes, or in regular volcanic overflows. Also called 
felstone and petrosilex. 
felsitic (fel-sit'ik), a. [< felsite + -ic.] Of or 
pertaining to or containing felsite ; of the na- 
ture of felsite. 
The ground-mass [horneblende-andesite] is frequently 
quite crystalline, or shows a small proportion of & felsitic 
nature, with microlites and grannies. 
Geikie, Encyc. Brit., X. 235. 
felsophyre (fel'so-fir), n. [Irreg. < G. fels, a 
rock, + (l>or)phyr(y).] A term in lithology 
proposed by Vogelsang, and used by him in a 
classification of the quartz porphyries into three 
divisions, granopliyre, felsophyre, an&vitrophyre, 
according as the ground-mass is crystalline- 
granular, imperfectly individualized (or felsitic, 
as he used that term), or glassy. 
felspar, felspath (fel'spar, -spath), . Same 
as feldspar. 
felspathic, felspathose (f el- spath 'ik, fel'- 
spath-6s), a. Same as feldspathic. 
felstone (fel'ston), . [< fels-, in felspar, + 
stone.] Same as felsite. 
