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poor at the fame time that we relieve them; and make our- 
ielves not only their patrons but fellow -fifferers. Addifon. 
FEL'LOW-WRI'TER, f. One who writes at the fame 
time, or on the fame fubjeft.—Since they cannot raife 
tiiemfelves to the reputation of their fellow-writers, they 
mud: fink it to their own pitch, if they would keep thent- 
ielves upon a level with them. Addifon. 
• FEL'LOWLIKE, or Fellowly, adj. Like a compa¬ 
nion; on equal terms; companionable.—All which good 
parts he graceth with a good fellowlike, kind, and refpeft- 
ful, carriage. Carexti. 
One feed for another to make an exchange, 
With fellowly neighbourhood feemeth not ft range. Tujfcr. 
FEL'LO WSHI P,yi Companionftiip ; confort; fociety. 
—There is no man but God puts excellent things into his 
pofteffion, to be ufed for the common good ; for men are 
made for fociety and mutual fellozqfliip.- Calamy. — Aflocia- 
tion ; confederacy; combination: 
We would not die in that man’s company, 
ft hat fears his fellojjoJkip to die-with us. Shakfpeare. 
Equality. • Partnerfliip ; joint intereft : 
Nearer acquainted, now I feel by proof 
That fellowjhip in pain divides not fmart, 
Nor lightens aught each man’s peculiar load. Milton. 
Company ; date of being together : 
The great contention of the fea and Ikies 
Parted our fcllowjkip. Skakcfpeare. 
Frequency of intercourfe ; facial pleafure.—In a great 
town friends are fcattered, fo that there is not that fcllow- 
Jhip which is in lets neighbourhoods. Bacon. —Fitnefs and 
fondnefs for fe-ftal entertainments, with good prefixed.— 
He had by his exceftive good fellow flip, which was grateful 
to all the company, made himfelf popular with all the 
officers of the army. Clarendon. —An eftabliftiment in the 
college, with (hare in its revenue.—Corufodes having, by 
extreme parfimony, faved thirty pounds out of a beggarly 
fellow/hip, went to London. Swift. —[In arithmetic.] That 
rule of plural proportion whereby we balance accounts, 
depending between divers perfons, having put together a 
general dock, fo that they may every man have his pro¬ 
portional gain, or fudain his proportional part of lofs.— 
See Arithmetic, vol. ii. p. 175. 
FEL'LY', adv. Cruelly ; inhumanly ; favagely ; bar- 
batoully ; fiercely : 
Fair ye be fore, but cruel and unkind; 
As is a tiger, that with greedinefs 
Hunts after blood, when he by chance doth find 
A feeble bead doth felly him opprefs. Sperfer. 
FE'LO DE SE, in law, is he that commits felony by 
laying.violent hands upon himfelf, or commits any un¬ 
lawful malicious aft, tire confequence of which is, his 
own untimely death. When a perfon with deliberation 
and direft purpofe kills himfelf, by hanging, drowning, 
(hooting, dabbing, &c. he becomes felo de fe; but the 
perfon that commits this felony, mud be of tire age of 
difcretion, and compos mentis ; and' therefore if an infant 
under fourteen years of age, or a lunatic during his lu¬ 
nacy, or one didrafted by a difeafe, or an ideot, kills 
himfelf, it is not felony. 3 Injl. 44. Alfo, if a perfon 
during the time that he is non compos mentis giveth himfelf 
a mortal wound, though he dieth thereof when he reco¬ 
vers his memory, he is not felo de fe ; becaufe at the time 
of the flroke he was not compos mentis. Dalt. 342. And he 
who defires and perfuades another man to kill him, is not 
a felo de fe ; hisaflent being void inlaw, and the perfon 
killing him a murderer. Kelui. 136. It is felo dc fe where 
a man malicioufly attempts to kill another, and falls upon 
iris (word, or (hooting at another the gun burfts, whereby 
lie kills himfelf; but he mud be the only agent, j Hawk. 
P. C. c. 27. 
A felo defe (hall forfeit all his goods and chattels real 
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and perfonal; but not until it is lawfully found by the 
oath of twelve men, before the coroner on view of the 
body, that he is felo defe. 3 Injl. 55. By the return of 
the inquifition the goods, Sec. are veded in the king. 
Though it hath been faid, that the goods of a felo de fe are 
forfeited before inquifition, viz. immediately upon com¬ 
mitting the faft, 1 Lev. 8 ; but by 5 Rep. no, it is adjudged, 
that they are not forfeited till it is found of record. The 
lands of inheritance of a felo defe are not forfeited, by rea- 
fon he was not attainted in his life-time: nor is inch a 
perfon’s wife barred of dower, or his blood corrupted. 
1 Hawk. P. C. C..27. If a judgment is obtained by a plain- 
tiffin any action, and the plaintiff hangs himfelf, fo as to 
become felodcJ'e, the debt is forfeited to the king. 1 Saund. 
36. Goods are forfeited to the king by a felo de fe, for 
the lofs of a fubjeft, and breach of the peace. 1 Plawd. 
261. This forfeiture has relation to the time of the aft 
done, in the felon’s life-time, which was the caufe of his 
death. As if tire hufband and wife be pofleffed jointly of 
a term of years, in land, and the hufband drown himfelf, 
the land (hall be forfeited to tlie king; and the wife rtiall 
not have it by furvivorfiiip. For by the aft of cading 
himfelf into the water, he forfeits the term ; which gives 
a title to the king, prior to the wife’s title by (urvivor- 
ffiip ; which could not accrue till the indant of her lntf- 
band’sdeath. Finch L. 216. Thefe forfeitures are, perhaps, 
often laved, by the coroner’s jury finding their verdift 
lunacy; to which they are inclined on a favourable inter¬ 
pretation, that it is impofiible for a man in his fenfes to do 
a thing fo contrary to nature; but if this argument be 
good, felf-murder can be no crime, becaufe a madman 
cannot be guilty of any crime. 1 Hawk. P. C. c. 27. 
If a perfon felo de fe is fecretly made away with that the 
coroner cannot view the body, prefentment is to be made 
of it by jufiices of peace, &c. to entitle the king to the 
forfeiture of goods. 5 Rep. no. Where a perfon is found 
felo de fe, who, on account of lunacy, See. ought not to be 
fo; or where one is returned non compos when in truth the 
party is felo dc fe, See. if there be no fault in the coroner, 
or incertainty in the inquifition, a melius inquirendum will 
not be granted; but the inquifition is traverfable in the 
court of king’s-bench. 2 Nclf. Abr. 840. A pardon of mur¬ 
der doth not pardon felo de fe; but a pardon of all felo¬ 
nies and forfeitures doth. By cudom and praftice, the 
body of a felo dc fe is buried in the highway, with a ftake 
driven through the body. 
FE'LON, f. felon, Fr. felo, low Lat. pel, Sax.] One 
who has committed a capital crime.—I apprehend thee 
for a felon here. Shakefpeare. 
The wily fox, 
Chas’d even amid’ the folds; and made to bleed, 
Like felons, where they did the murd’rous deed. Drydcn. 
t 
A whitlow ; a tumour formed between the bone and its 
inverting membrane.—The malign paronychia is that 
which is commonly called a felon. Wfeman. 
FE'LON, adj. Cruel; traiterous; inhuman: 
Ay me ! what thing on earth that all things breeds, 
Might be the caufe of fo impatient flight 1 
What fury, or what fiend with felon deeds, 
Hath dirred up fo mifehievous defpiglu ! Spenfer. 
Refolute: 
Whylome, as antique dories tellen 11s, 
Thofe two were foes the fellonefl on ground. Spenfer. 
FELO'NIOUS, adj. Wicked; traitorous; villainous; 
malignant; perfidious ; deftruftive.—This man conceived 
the duke’s death ; but what was the motive of that felo- 
nious. conception is in the clouds. IVotton. 
In thy felonious heart though venom lies, 
It does but touch thy Irilh pen, and dies. Dryden. 
FELO'NIOUSLY, adv. In a felonious way. 
FE'LONOUS, 
