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A fellow rival; a competitor; a rival; also, a companion. [R.] Shak.

Resistance; opposition; a stand against. Making counterstand to Robert Guiscard. Longfellow.

lton. Pardon me, Messer Claudio, if once more I use the ancient courtesies of speech. Longfellow.

Cowardly. The Lady Powis . . . patted him with her fan, and called him a cowhearted fellow. R. North.

A vain, showy fellow; a conceited, silly man, fond of display; a superficial pretender to knowledge or accomplishments; a fop. Fond to be seen, she kept a bevy Of powdered coxcombs at her levee. Goldsmith. Some are bewildered in the maze of schools, And some made coxcombs, nature meant but fools. Pope.…

A noisy boaster; a swaggering fellow. [Obs.] What cracker is this same that deafs our ears Shak.

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.

That which is cropped, cut, or gathered from a single felld, or of a single kind of grain or fruit, or in a single season; especially, the product of what is planted in the earth; fruit; harvest. Lab'ring the soil, and reaping plenteous crop, Corn, wine, and oil. Milton.

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

piece of bread or other food, broken or cut off. Desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table. Luke xvi. 21.

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.