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714 words match “FELLOW”

EPITHITE n.
A lazy, worthless fellow; a vagrant. [Obs.] Mason.
EQUALIZATION n.
act of equalizing, or state of being equalized. Their equalization with the rest of their fellow subjects. Burke.
EQUINOX n.
mnal and Vernal. When descends on the Atlantic The gigantic Stormwind of the equinox. Longfellow.
EQUIPMENT n.
al equipments; laboratory equipments. Armed and dight, In the equipments of a knight. Longfellow.
EQUIPOISE n.
h. Burke. Our little lives are kept in equipoise By opposite attractions and desires. Longfellow.
EVEN a.
Associate; fellow; of the same condition. [Obs.] "His even servant." Wyclif (Matt.
EXCOMMUNICATION n.
pronounced is, for the time, cast out of the communication of the church; exclusion from fellowship in things spiritual.
FAINEANT a.
A do-nothing; an idle fellow; a sluggard. Sir W. Scott.
FATEFUL a.
Significant of fate; ominous. The fateful cawings of the crow. Longfellow. -- Fate"ful*ly, adv.- Fate"ful*ness, n.
FEELING n.
feeling in the heart; our angry or kindly feelings; a feeling of pride or of humility. A fellow feeling makes one wondrous kind. Garrick. Tenderness for the feelings of others. Macaulay.
FIENDLIKE a.
Fiendish; diabolical. Longfellow.
FIGULINE n.
ural objects. Whose figulines and rustic wares Scarce find him bread from day to day. Longfellow.
FILIGRAIN; FILIGRANE n.
Filigree. [Archaic] With her head . . . touches the crown of filigrane. Longfellow.
FLACON n.
A small glass bottle; as, a flacon for perfume. "Two glass flacons for the ink." Longfellow.
FLAMELET n.
A small flame. The flamelets gleamed and flickered. Longfellow.
FLAT n.
A dull fellow; a simpleton; a numskull. [Colloq.] Or if you can not make a speech, Because you are a flat. Holmes.
FLECK n.
A spot; a streak; a speckle. "A sunny fleck." Longfellow. Life is dashed with flecks of sin. tennyson.
FLOCK v.
To flock to; to crowd. [Obs.] Good fellows, trooping, flocked me so. Taylor (1609).
FLURRY n.
hower or snowfall accompanied with wind. Like a flurry of snow on the whistling wind. Longfellow.
FOGY n.
A dull old fellow; a person behind the times, over- conservative, or slow; -- usually preceded by old. [Written also fogie and fogey.] [Colloq.] Notorious old bore; regular old fogy. Thackeray.
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