a. Fellowlike. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

The fellows of his crime. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

We are fellows still,
Serving alike in sorrow. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

That enormous engine was flanked by two fellows almost of equal magnitude. Gibbon. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Commonly used of men, but sometimes of women. Judges xi. 37. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A man without good breeding or worth; an ignoble or mean man. [ 1913 Webster ]

Worth makes the man, and want of it, the fellow. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. An equal in power, rank, character, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

It is impossible that ever Rome
Should breed thy fellow. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. One of a pair, or of two things used together or suited to each other; a mate; the male. [ 1913 Webster ]

When they be but heifers of one year, . . . they are let go to the fellow and breed. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

This was my glove; here is the fellow of it. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A person; an individual. [ 1913 Webster ]

She seemed to be a good sort of fellow. Dickens. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. A member of a literary or scientific society; as, a Fellow of the Royal Society. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Were the great duke himself here, and would lift up
My head to fellow pomp amongst his nobles. Ford. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To suit with; to pair with; to match. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A student at Cambridge University, England, who commons, or dines, at the Fellow's table. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One of the same race or kind; one made by the same Creator. [ 1913 Webster ]

Reason, by which we are raised above our fellow-creatures, the brutes. I. Watts. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To share through sympathy; to participate in. [ R. ] D. Rodgers. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Sympathy; a like feeling. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Joint interest. [ Obs. ] Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Without fellow or equal; peerless. [ 1913 Webster ]

Whose well-built walls are rare and fellowless. Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Like a companion; companionable; on equal terms; sympathetic. [ Obs. ] Udall. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Fellowshiped p. pr. & vb. n.. Fellowshiping. ] (Eccl.) To acknowledge as of good standing, or in communion according to standards of faith and practice; to admit to Christian fellowship. [ 1913 Webster ]