Fel"low (?), n. [OE. felawe,
felaghe, Icel. fēlagi, fr. fēlag
companionship, prop., a laying together of property; fē
property + lag a laying, pl. lög law, akin to
liggja to lie. See Fee, and Law, Lie to
be low.] 1. A companion; a comrade; an
associate; a partner; a sharer.
The fellows of his crime.
Milton.
We are fellows still,
Serving alike in sorrow.
Shak.
That enormous engine was flanked by two fellows
almost of equal magnitude.
Gibbon.
&fist; Commonly used of men, but sometimes of women. Judges
xi. 37.
2. A man without good breeding or worth; an
ignoble or mean man.
Worth makes the man, and want of it, the
fellow.
Pope.
3. An equal in power, rank, character,
etc.
It is impossible that ever Rome
Should breed thy fellow.
Shak.
4. One of a pair, or of two things used
together or suited to each other; a mate; the male.
When they be but heifers of one year, . . . they are
let go to the fellow and breed.
Holland.
This was my glove; here is the fellow of
it.
Shak.
5. A person; an individual.
She seemed to be a good sort of
fellow.
Dickens.
6. In the English universities, a scholar who
is appointed to a foundation called a fellowship, which gives
a title to certain perquisites and privileges.
7. In an American college or university, a
member of the corporation which manages its business interests; also,
a graduate appointed to a fellowship, who receives the income of the
foundation.
8. A member of a literary or scientific
society; as, a Fellow of the Royal Society.
&fist; Fellow is often used in compound words, or
adjectively, signifying associate, companion, or
sometimes equal. Usually, such compounds or phrases are self-
explanatory; as, fellow-citizen, or fellow citizen;
fellow-student, or fellow student; fellow-
workman, or fellow workman; fellow-mortal, or
fellow mortal; fellow-sufferer; bedfellow;
playfellow; workfellow.
Were the great duke himself here, and would lift
up
My head to fellow pomp amongst his nobles.
Ford.
Fel"low (?), v. t. To suit with;
to pair with; to match. [Obs.] Shak.