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   Fellow , 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.]
   A companion; a comrade; an associate; a partner; a sharer.
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   The fellows of his crime.
   Milton.
   
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   We are fellows still,
   Serving alike in sorrow.
   Shak.
   
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   That enormous engine was flanked by two fellows almost of equal magnitude.
   Gibbon.
   
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   ☞ Commonly used of men, but sometimes of women.
   Judges xi. 37.
   
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   A man without good breeding or worth; an ignoble or mean man.
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   Worth makes the man, and want of it, the fellow.
   Pope.
   
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   An equal in power, rank, character, etc.
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   It is impossible that ever Rome
   Should breed thy fellow.
   Shak.
   
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   One of a pair, or of two things used together or suited to each other; a mate; the male.
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   When they be but heifers of one year, . . . they are let go to the fellow and breed.
   Holland.
   
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   This was my glove; here is the fellow of it.
   Shak.
   
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   A person; an individual.
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   She seemed to be a good sort of fellow.
   Dickens.
   
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   In the English universities, a scholar who is appointed to a foundation called a fellowship, which gives a title to certain perquisites and privileges.
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   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.
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   A member of a literary or scientific society; as, a Fellow of the Royal Society.
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   ☞ 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.
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   Were the great duke himself here, and would lift up
   My head to fellow pomp amongst his nobles.
   Ford.
   
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   Fellow , v. t. To suit with; to pair with; to match. [Obs.]
   Shak.
   
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