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Cruel; barbarous; inhuman; fierce; savage; ravenous. While we devise fell tortures for thy faults. Shak.

Fit to be felled.

A peasant or cultivator of the soil among the Egyptians, Syrians, etc. W. M. Thomson.

One who, or that which, fells, knocks or cuts down; a machine for felling trees.

The fieldfare.

Flowing with gall. [R.] Johnson.

Of, relating to, or derived from, bile or gall; as, fellinic acid.

A dealer in fells or sheepskins, who separates the wool from the pelts.

The quality or state of being fell or cruel; fierce barbarity. Spenser.

See Felly.

Variant of Felon. [Obs.] Those two were foes the fellonest on ground. Spenser.

A companion; a comrade; an associate; a partner; a sharer. The fellows of his crime. Milton. We are fellows still, Serving alike in sorrow. Shak. That enormous engine was flanked by two fellows almost of equal magnitude. Gibbon.

A student at Cambridge University, England, who commons, or dines, at the Fellow's table.

ame race or kind; one made by the same Creator. Reason, by which we are raised above our fellow-creatures, the brutes. I. Watts.

Sympathy; a like feeling.

To share through sympathy; to participate in. [R.] D. Rodgers.

Without fellow or equal; peerless. Whose well-built walls are rare and fellowless. Chapman.

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

Fellowlike. [Obs.] Shak.

familiar intercourse. In a great town, friends are scattered, so that there is not that fellowship which is in less neighborhods. Bacon. Men are made for society and mutual fellowship. Calamy.