Fellow \Fel"low\, n. [OE. felawe, felaghe, Icel. f[=e]lagi, fr.
f[=e]lag companionship, prop., a laying together of property;
f[=e] property + lag a laying, pl. l["o]g 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.
Note: 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.
Note: 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.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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