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ime, throughout all ages and nations, Has the craft of the smith been held in repute. Longfellow.

A recreant; a coward; a weak-hearted, spiritless fellow. See Recreant, n. King Henry. Is it fit this soldier keep his oath Fluellen.He is a craven and a villain else. Shak.

king sound, or the act of making such a sound. Start not at the creaking of the door. Longfellow.

Lamed; lame; disabled; impeded. "The crippled crone." Longfellow.

In the form of a cross; across; transversely. Longfellow.

rs of the Middle Ages. Azure-eyed and golden-haired, Forth the young crusaders fared. Longfellow.

A pack or company of persons; -- in contempt. Would not this . . . get me a fellowship in a cry of players Shak.

A mean wretch; a base fellow; a poltroon; a scullion. "Away, base cullions." Shak.

A mongrel or inferior dog. They . . . like to village curs, Bark when their fellows do. Shak.

An avaricious, grasping fellow; a miser; a niggard; a churl. A gray-headed curmudgeon of a negro. W. Irving.

Like a curmudgeon; niggardly; churlish; as, a curmudgeonly fellow.

To beat or bruise; to drub; -- said of persons. I have seen him curry a fellow's carcass handsomely. Beau. & FL. To curry favor, to seek to gain favor by flattery or attentions. See Favor, n.

A foul-mouthed fellow. "An you play the saucy cuttle me." Shak.

Same as Dacotas. Longfellow.

A stupid, blockish fellow; a numskull. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A little fellow; -- in sport or contempt. "A dandiprat hop-thumb." Stanyhurst.

A reckless fellow. Also used adjectively; as, dare-devil excitement. A humorous dare-devil -- the very man To suit my prpose. Ld. Lytton.

and ruins; a jackdaw. The loud daw, his throat displaying, draw The whole assembly of his fellow daws. Waller.

The skin of a deer, or the leather which is made from it. Hakluyt. Longfellow.

defiance; bold; insolent; as, a defiant spirit or act. In attitude stern and defiant. Longfellow. -- De*fi"ant*ly, adv. -- De*fi"ant*ness, n.